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Re: Transparent reply-to-mailing-list for broken mailers



In <[🔎] 1251868974.4290.6.camel@paddington.network.ursamundi.org>, Paul Johnson 
wrote:
>On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 16:53 -0600, ghe wrote:
>> FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
>>
>> :0Hfhw
>>
>> * ^Return-Path: <bounce-debian-user=ghe=slsware.com@lists.debian.org>
>>
>> | $FORMAIL -i "Reply-To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>"
>>
>> (Note that my name is in the Return-Path.)
>>
>> No addy editing, no buttons that don't exist on all my broken email
>> clients, and no surprises for others on the debian-user list...
>
>Wow, transparent reply-to-list for broken mailers:  Very nice!

It's not transparent.  It's rare, but some users do actually set the Reply-To 
header (and expect you to use it); this trumps their setting irrecoverably.
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