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Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?



On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Richard Hector wrote:
> >The trouble is, you can't. If the list has changed the Reply-to header,
> >it's thrown away what was there before. You could fall back to the From
> >or Sender header, but that might not be where the sender reads their
> >mail. They may have set Reply-to for a good reason.
> 
>     IE, name me one case where someone would set reply-to where they would 
> not be able to also set From:.  I can't think of a single modern email 
> client out of early development where this isn't the case.  I can't think 
> of one in the past decade going back to my early days with elm and pine.

Say you're dialed in from home, but want all your incoming mail to
collect at work.

Sure you _could_ set the From: header to your work one, but that's
arguably wrong, and I entirely sympathise with ISPs who don't allow it.

Richard



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