On 11/09/2012 12:16 PM, Michael Heydekamp wrote:

> 1) Click on "Reply to sender": The reply goes to "[email protected]"
> only (as there is no real name given, this address is obviously taken from
> the Reply-To: or Mail-Reply-To: header), but not to the list. This behaviour
> is wrong, IMHO.

Roundcube uses Mail-Reply-To header as Thunderbird does and I think this
is ok, because Mail-Reply-To has precedence.

> 2) Click on "Reply to list or to sender and all recipients": The reply goes
> to "[email protected]" only (as there is no real name given, this
> address might probably be taken from the X-Original-To: header), but not to
> the sender. This behaviour is wrong again, IMHO.
> 
> 3) Select "Reply all" from the options of the "Reply to list or to sender
> and all recipients" button: The reply goes to "[email protected]"
> (obviously taken from the Reply-To: or Mail-Reply-To: header) and in Cc: to
> "RoundCube Mailingliste <[email protected]>" (definitely taken from
> the To: header). This behaviour is more confusing than wrong, anyway it does
> still not reflect the content of the Reply-To: header and the addresses are
> taken from different headers.
> 
> 4) Select "Reply list" from the options of the "Reply to list or to sender
> and all recipients" button: The reply goes to "[email protected]"
> only (as there is no real name given, this address might probably be taken
> from the X-Original-To: header), but not to the sender. This behaviour may
> be considered as correct, although even this could still be arguable as
> well. And I'm wondering why the recipient is taken from the X-Original-To:
> header (rather than from the To: header).

For me it's consistent and Thunderbird does exactly the same.

> I believe it should be reconsidered which headers should be respected and
> take precedence in which scenario. At least in scenarios 1) to 3) above the
> content of the Reply-To: header should be respected, IMHO.
> 
> Furthermore I'm wondering what the purpose of the Mail-Reply-To: header is
> and why it is created at all. Generally spoken, from my point of view
> standard RFC headers (To:, Cc:, Reply-To:, probably Sender:) should take
> precedence over non-standard headers such as Mail-Reply-To: or

http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html

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