Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 11:28 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote:
I sympathise, but this may not be entirely the person sending the replys fault, hitting reply on my copy of Thunderbird will send directly to the original sender not to the list itself. (I dunno if this case with other mail clients). A ReplyTo field should ideally be set to the list address, but this does get not set. (Coming to think about it I seem to remember TBird having a reply to mail-list option at one time). I find myself having to reply to all and edit the recipient out. Got caught out a couple of times early on with this 'feature'.
evolution does the same, so I do the same editing. The list posts contain:
List-Post: mailto:opensuse@opensuse.org List-Help: mailto:opensuse+help@opensuse.org List-Subscribe: mailto:opensuse+subscribe@opensuse.org List-Unsubscribe: mailto:opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org List-Owner: mailto:opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
But not all mailers know what to do with this. Do any mail readers use these for reply purposes? If not, they are only using the From: field, which makes sense. The Cc to the list must be from the To: field in the message. I guess the list management software would have to put an envelope around the message to change this behavior.
According to RFC 822 (4.4.3/4.4.4) the ReplyTo field is supposed to override the From field for the purposes of replying to a message. (Useful if you are sending from account a but want any replies directed to account b). I think the above Headers are non-standard so I would not expect all mail clients to support them (in fact my copy of TBird does not even report them).... but I am not certain... there is a RFC containing a description of non-standard headers not included in the standard header RFCs, cant remember number at moment...