At 22:50 12/06/2007 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:40:58 +0100
Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not? Because it doesn't do what you say.
>
> In my mailer at least - and I guess in others - Reply All includes
> the original recipient (that's the list) and the sender, but as
> evidenced by the Reply-To header, not the From header, (that's the
> list again) in the To field and it puts the addresses in the Cc
> header in the new Cc field. The address in the original From header
> doesn't get a look in.
That's very odd behaviour. I've never used a Windows mail client;
perhaps it's
another Microsoft pseudo-standard of some sort.
I don't see it as odd and it's certainly not Microsoft, in fact: as
it happens, my mail client is not a Microsoft product.
The function of the Reply-To header is (or should be) for the
message's author to suggest an alternative address for replies. S/he
is writing from address A in the From header but requests that
replies be sent to address B in the Reply-To header. There are no
circumstances, then, in which any reply should ever go to A. So it
is surely not odd that mail clients do not include A. The problem
crops up when a third party - here the list processor - muscles in on
and overrides the author's reply address given in the original Reply-To header.
Brian Barker
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