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["Dylan Pocock" <address@concealed>]

This old question is considered here:

   Linkname: "Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful
        URL: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Verdin [mailto:address@concealed] 
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 7:45 AM
> To: Sympa Users
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Re: Get both messages to list and directly
> 
> RESENDING : Forgot to send it to the list. I alos fix a 
> message bug. ;)
> 
> Indeed. My brain must be due for overhaul. :P
> 
> sympa-users is *not* set to reply to all. Therefore: 
> 
> 1- the Reply-to header is not set
> 2- You client uses its default behaviour, which to answer to 
> the original sender and not to the list.
> 
> I had no idea Evolution was able to use the mailing-list 
> specific SMTP headers. That's one point for this client.
> I'll check whether Thunderbird can, too.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul Menzel a écrit : 
> 
>       Dear David,
>       
>       
>       thanks for your answer. (It was put into the 
> Spam-folder by Google
>       Mail :( ).
>       
>       Am Freitag, den 23.01.2009, 09:52 +0100 schrieb David Verdin:
>       
>         
> 
>               Sympa sets up the "Reply-To:" header when 
> sending the message.
>                   
> 
>       
>       Looking in the headers of the messages, I cannot find 
> this header. Just
>       "In-Reply-To:".
>       
>         
> 
>               The values this field will contain are defined 
> by the list config
>               parameter reply_to_heade. see snapshot attached.
>               If set to "list" replies will be sent to the 
> list only. If set to
>               "sender", the reply will be sent to the sender 
> only. if set to
>               "both" (which is the case for 
> address@concealed) ,replies are setnto
>               both the sender and the list.
>               
>               A client fair to the SMTP specification will 
> use this field to create
>               a reply to the message.
>                   
> 
>       
>       It is strange then, that the answer from Cefiar just 
> had the list as the
>       addressee and yours both. I think it is the Mail User 
> Agent (Thunderbird
>       in this case). You probably hit "Answer to all" and 
> Cefiar "Answer to
>       list" (in Evolution Ctrl + l).
>       
>       
>       Thanks,
>       
>       Paul
>         
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Verdin
> Comité réseau des universités
>