On Monday 16 June 2008, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>On 16/06/2008 12:35, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 16 June 2008, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>>> 2008/6/16 Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>> On Sunday 15 June 2008, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>>>>> On 15/06/2008 15:16, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>>> On Saturday 14 June 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>>>> i would like to get open office on my computer how do i get  it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <http:openoffice.org>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The download is free, and can be installed on as many machines as you
>>>>>> like, or copied and given away.  Anyone who wants to charge you for
>>>>>> it, you are not on the correct downloading site.
>>>>>
>>>>> To Gene Heskett: you responded to a poster who is not subscribed. If
>>>>> you do not include such a poster's email address *explicitly* in the
>>>>> To: or cc: list of your reply the poster will not see your message
>>>>> unless, which seems unlikely, s/he is reading this list via a different
>>>>> e-mail address or via a News group such as Gmane's.
>>>>
>>>> Is kmail loosing its mind, or am I.  First I can't seem to get it to
>>>> remember
>>>> that any replies I send to THIS list are supposed to go through gmail,
>>>> not verizon.  And apparently it also doesn't do me any good to hit the
>>>> reply-all
>>>> button either.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Harold.
>>>
>>> Gene,
>>>
>>> I'm not 100% sure but I don't think the mail system makes any difference.
>>> A message from a non-subscribed poster (and only such a message) will
>>> contain a second "Delivered-To:" header saying "moderator for
>>> [email protected]". Some mail readers - Thunderbird is the one I know
>>> most about - will let you filter on that header/value and "tag" relevant
>>> messages in some way that you can easily see. This makes life easier but
>>> in any case I think you have explicitly to include the poster's address
>>> for the poster to see your reply. I don't believe Reply All works
>>> although, as Larry Gusaas says there has been debate on this topic; it
>>> certainly doesn't work in Thunderbird, in Outlook Express or in Gmail's
>>> web interface.
>>
>> This is using pop3 both ways here, regardless of what server I post
>> through. I detest these so-called web mail lashups for a number of
>> reasons, the inability to turn off html in most of them being #1.
>>
>> What did you do, in sending me a private message, to cause kmail to send
>> this reply to the list rather than back to you?  That doesn't seem to be
>> the correct response either.
>>
>> Thanks Harold.
>
>Gene, all I did was use my usual "reply" (*not* reply-all) to your
>message. I just assumed it would go to [email protected] as usual.
>However, your question caused me to look at the headers of your message.
>I think the "problem" arises from the fact that your message does *not*
>have a Reply-To header and therefore, following RFC 822 [1], my mailer
>sent my reply to the From address - "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I'm
>talking about your message "GmailId11a8fb595c65bfa7" sent Sun, 15 Jun
>2008 21:50:20 -0700 (PDT).
>
>So either your mailer failed to insert the Reply-To header or the list
>management software screwed up or my mail system (Googlemail) lost the
>Reply-To header.

It wasn't there. I discontinued its use a couple of years ago because it was 
messing with too many list management software packages mind.
>I also note that your message was cc'd to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Was that deliberate on your part or did
>your mailer do that automagically?

Automagicly.

>Note too that *this* message is not going to you personally but to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] even though I followed the same procedure - I just Reply'd to
>a message from you to the list. That message does have a Reply-To header.

As I have here, and its headed for users@ ANAICT

>[1] From RFC 822:
>- If the "Reply-To" field exists, then the reply should go to the
>addresses indicated in that field and not to the address(es) indicated
>in the "From" field.
>- If there is a "From" field, but no "Reply-To" field, the reply should
>be sent to the address(es) indicated in the "From" field.
>
>The headers from your message follow. Note that the text below is
>copy/pasted from Googlemail's *web* interface and not from my mailer
>(Thunderbird). Therefore I don't think the lack of a Reply-To header is
>an artefact of anything at my end:

It wasn't.

>=========== begin headers ====
>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Received: by 10.150.144.10 with SMTP id r10cs237754ybd;
>        Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
>Received: by 10.90.115.17 with SMTP id n17mr6335045agc.57.1213591820762;
>        Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com
>[209.85.132.240])
>        by mx.google.com with ESMTP id
>l31si4764037hsa.2.2008.06.15.21.50.19;
>        Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:20 -0700 (PDT)
>Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>designates 209.85.132.240 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.132.240;
>Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] designates 209.85.132.240 as permitted sender)
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]; dkim=pass (test mode) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d30so2183651and.77
>        for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:19
>-0700 (PDT)
>DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
>        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
>        h=domainkey-signature:received:received:organization:to:subject:date
>
>         :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type
>         :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id:from;
>
>        bh=ibahjTDHLAp0DwsMrwDCP8kii/QnLK+HuelTUyOKTHU=;
>        b=k93H0WpWT+gEr+aOsZ0VWocDtUl9D9aUGlORweY4Mc3gK0hFHlY3N+MSgQFEQxAih1
>
>Z3EboC41cHAaJK3tOVxuYGy+R2ESFrFShfWvySmy1bDfRBDF138DlN++SkuSGdjLJncW
>         Bg4bvfD/2a7tqlkmmzNSgWONwzBmqYjiwOaRQ=
>DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
>        d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
>        h=organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to
>
>         :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding
>         :content-disposition:message-id:from;
>
>        b=NxX6Vetb391QcM1K22qE0WTu1NAHQnUdhk4haR3/bhiVneWMVG6MZRkK0Dc2nIHsMP
>
>ehLKtmgN9KnUhw0SmOH8xfrBRY5rAw7w9x2sJFjZR/zNSKqgReE0Cb6TM+qLEBsNcueX
>         00R2CRDB8q2HChcCph3LfB6l7NJRc03MZ5H1o=
>Received: by 10.101.68.10 with SMTP id v10mr7309823ank.45.1213591819453;
>        Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Received: from coyote.coyote.den ( [151.205.9.220])
>        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm11228895yxg.6.2008.06.15.21.50.18
>        (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5);
>        Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
>Organization: Organization? Not detectable
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]
>Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:50:16 -0400
>User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9
>Cc: Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain;
>  charset="utf-8"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Content-Disposition: inline
>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>cc:
>=========== end headers =====

And at least 2/3rds of the above was not in the message I sent.  Here that is 
same header as it left here for a comparison:
------------------------
From: Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Organization: Organization? very little
 X-KMail-Identity: 2102292296
 To: [email protected]
 Subject: Re: [users] [moderated]
 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:35:10 -0400
 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9
 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 X-KMail-Link-Message: 4095525091
 X-KMail-Link-Type: reply
 X-KMail-Transport: GMail Send
 MIME-Version: 1.0
 Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="utf-8"
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
 Content-Disposition: inline
 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Status: RO
 X-Status: RSC
 X-KMail-EncryptionState: 
 X-KMail-SignatureState: 
 X-KMail-MDN-Sent: 
------------------------------
And that's it.


-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers
have been all over it.
                -- Julia Child on nouvelle cuisine.

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