* 2020-12-05 21:33:58Z, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 23:08:14 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2. A Reply-To is set, either by the list[1] or by the Sender > > Even with one set, many ppl /still/ manage to not honour it. My email application (Notmuch) normally honours Reply-To but there is an exception. If Reply-To is different from the From address and points the same address as To or Cc address then use From address instead of Reply-To. There is sense in this. Reply means "reply to sender". If Reply-To has the same address as in To/Cc then the Reply-To address probably is not sender's address. So don't honour Reply-To and use From instead. It is also a safe behaviour: a private message meant for the sender is not accidentally sent to other people's addresses or to a public mailing list. I guess we all know by now that mail user agent software don't agree with all the different semantics of replying. Widely supported features are "reply to sender" (Reply-To, From) and "reply to all". Debian mailing list policy (send only to list address) is not easy for many mail user agents. "Reply to all" would be easier but we have to manage. -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. https://www.iki.fi/tlikonen/ // OpenPGP: 4E1055DC84E9DFF613D78557719D69D324539450
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