William Gallafent wrote:
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:03, Basil Chupin wrote:
Now, having said what I said above, can you point out to me ANY e-mail message which has come to this forum that has a REPLY-TO field in it?
This one, where I unsuccessfully attempted to divert the conversation to a more appropriate list:
Message-Id: <200608150938.47561.william@gallaf.net>
To me this is not enough information to find the exact message you are referring to. But, have you looked at the header to your message (the one I am replying to)? For some inexplicable reason it has a Repy-To field, and it is "suse-ot@suse.com" which means that a SuSE server put in the Reply-To field.
Of course, this didn't help people who configure their systems not to honour this header.
I can't see one in any of the messages I have looked at. To me that means that the author/sender did *not* have this field in his/her original message and therefore *this* (SuSE) server can add this field to all the e-mails which arrive in this forum.
Since the SuSE server is not the author of the message, it does not have that right. From, Sender and Reply-To all refer to the _originator_ of the message, not to any system which resends it.
I agree and it does not contradict what I said earlier. Perhaps I wasn't clear, or people may not interpret correctly what I wrote. I said that a person's message should (and it really should be "must") not be interfered with during transmission and arrive at the destination as originally sent. (Proviso: all ISPs reserve the right I believe to delete a message if it contains a virus et al.) However, this does not mean that after its arrival the server on which it has arrived cannot add some field(s) which do not interfere with the original message. If there is no Reply-To field in the original message then the server can add one (Reply-To: SuSE server - just like to your message). If there is a Reply-To field already then the server honours it and does not insert its own field. QED.
End of story :-) .
You wish ;)
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