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jdow wrote:
> I'm feeling slow today.
You're lucky if you don't feel slow everyday. :)
> I can't see how the way the headers are applied Aaron would find
> sending emails with a "reply" to you would cause a problem. A simple
> reply should end up with the email going to the list, pretty much as
> it should.
If there are multiple addresses in the Reply-to header, then a reply
will go to all of them, at least in many mail clients. That's correct
and intended behavior, though it probably surprises a lot of folks
because there are more lists (in my experience) that either replace
the Reply-to header or leave it alone.
Here's a quote from Aaron's original mail outlining the issue, which
will hopefully clarify what his initial concern was that started this
tangent.
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 15:28 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I might as well get this off my chest there is one member of this
list that sends me responses to my list messages at my actual
address as the primary address but does not allow his e-mail
address to accept mail.
The issue arose because of the way the list adds its own address to
the reply-to without stripping Aaron's existing reply-to header. So
when Tim would reply to messages that Aaron sent, the reply would go
to both Aaron and the list.
I think that is all there is to it. The many variables of what
someone else's mail client may or may not do for (or to) them isn't of
much concern to me, so long as whatever it does isn't egregiously
violating net standards or common courtesy (neither of which happened
here, IMO).
Have I missed a part of this that you're still interested in figuring
out?
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