On Thu, 2005-05-19 04:23:
And, please don't set reply-to in your email clients. I often find my outgoings in need of pruning.
Um. IMHO if they set reply-to, they're *asking* you to CC them, and there's no reason not to honour that.
There is another very good reason to set Reply-to:, e.g. my scenario:
I have a single incoming e-mail address in one domain, but most of my
outgoing e-mails come from another domain, and therefore, because the outgoing domain does not receive e-mails at all, reply-to ensures that
I read regularly mail from at four machines (and occasionally on two more) and use two or more email clients on every one of them.
I use kmail (less frequently now) mutt (which I don't like much) Mozilla Firefox Evolution (I'm not fond of that either) pine Mail (OS X)
I read mail from several of my accounts with most of those clients.
All of them (possibly excepting mutt) can set From: automatically depending on which account I'm reading. I don't need to set reply-to on any of them.
no matter which of the 4 or 5 machines I email from, and no matter which domain they show the e-mail as being from, that any and all replies will come to the one and only incoming domain. While normally I'm using a decent e-mail client that allows forging the From: address
I think you're misusing the word "forge." Forge speaks of fraudulent activity, and when I set my email client to use any of my email addresses there's no fraudulent activity involved - I'm not trying to deceive anyone.
to look like my incoming address, sometimes the Reply-To: is the only way to guarantee that it is even possible to get an email to me. Now, if you've got a way to solve these problems without using Reply-To, I'm all ears! Oh, and, By-The-Way, I don't want an e-mail CC of any reply you send to a mailing list, I don't need two copies of your email, and
When I hit "reply" in Mozilla Mail it has your address as one of the "to:" addresses. I have to remember to remove it.
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