On Monday 14 August 2006 23:08, ken wrote:
William Gallafent wrote:
On Monday 14 August 2006 09:48, ken wrote:
So then where in rfc 2822 is the use Reply-To in email distribution lists addressed?
Note that RFC2822 applies to all email, whether it is sent to a list server or not.
=== Section 3.6.2. Originator fields:
When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests that replies be sent. ===
I suspected (was afraid) that this particular sentence was the heart of the storm. Taken out of context, it does sound definitive.
It is up to the _author_ of the message to decide what goes in the Reply-To header. Systems which subsequently process the email, after it has been sent, are not the author, and as such are not entitled to decide what should go in the Reply-To field.
If the author wishes to put the list address in the Reply-To field (as I have here), that's fine.
Yeah, I've had to explain the same thing to several irate people who write back to me, asking "WHY ARE YOU WRITING TO ME?????" Yet another benefit of the current configuration. :)
No, I've seen comments like that about list mail. Some people just don't understand very much about email. Incidentally, RFC2822 is a "Proposed Standard", one of the first stages of the RFC standards track. It's a long way away from becoming a standard, so whether it's definitive or not is uninteresting until it makes it all the way up to a real RFC standard