Re: reply to Gene's reply-to address (was: SA question, and yes, I've checked the SA wiki.)

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On Wednesday 23 March 2005 12:16, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>Am Mi, den 23.03.2005 schrieb Gene Heskett um 16:36:
>> >Gene,
>> >
>> >I always have a problem to get the reply to your postings to your
>> >reply-to address. Do others share that problem?
>>
>> What are you seeing as a replyto: address?  IIRC I've got
>> something that *was* legal at one time in there.
>
>Hi Gene :)
>
>Antwort an: gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx, For users of Fedora Core
> releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>"Antwort an:" is German from my Evolution and meand "reply to:". I
> guess you did set in your mail client the reply-to field
> explicitly. This may be because you like to get replies to your
> list postings not only over the list subscription but too as a
> reply to your mail address directly. That may be a reason. The list
> manager (mailman) on the Red Hat server sets the reply-to address
> automatically, and I think if there is already one set, then the
> Fedora list address is added. We see the same with people mailing
> with Gmail (through the web frontend).
>Sidenote: if your reply-to address does not differ your sender
> address, and given the reason I explained above (direct reply
> rather than list only) is not given, you do not need to set the
> reply-to in your mail client. Just leave it empty.
>
Humm, I just cleared it, but IIRC that also led to problems a year or 
so back, and that was the reason I set it at that time.  But we'll 
see how this works for a few days anyway, unless something blows up 
big time.

I appreciate the help, thanks a bunch Alexander.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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