Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Friday, August 11, 2006 at 14:24:57, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> 
> > You and the author of that page forget one thing. Its impossible to set
> > a reply to if the list adds one. The mailinglist software has to remove
> > all reply-to headers first and the insert the list one. So if i want
> > answers only to some mailbox (there are tons of reasons to do so)
> > reply-to munging makes this impossible.
> 
> Mailman, at least, *adds* a Reply-to header -- it does not remove/munge existing
> headers. So if an original post includes a Reply-to header and the Mailman list
> server is configured for "Reply to List" then what the list subscribers receive
> includes both Reply-to headers.

Another reason to hate mailman 8) From RFC 2822: 

The following table indicates limits on the number of times each field
may occur in a message header as well as any special limitations on the
use of those fields.

Field           Min number      Max number
reply-to        0               1

Henne

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