Quoting Antony Stone (antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it): > PS: Please do not set "Reply-to" on list emails.
Actually, _that_ use of the header was harmless (albeit, um, pointless). Josef had: To: Josef Grosch <jgro...@gmail.com> Subject: Devuan AMI Reply-To: Josef Grosch <jgro...@gmail.com> ...where you'll note that the bottom header repeats his posting address. The proper use of Reply-To as per RFCs 2822 and 2369 is, quoting verbatim, to indicate the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests that replies be sent. Which is to say, direct (in the case of mailing list traffic) offlist replies. Josef was implicitly saying, 'Instead of sending me direct mail at my jgro...@gmail.com posting address, kindly instead use my alternate mailbox, jgro...@gmail.com.' Those being the same address renders the header more than a bit pointless and basically a NO-OP -- but it isn't _harmful_. You are perhaps confusing this matter with the Flamewar That Shall Not Be Named, the _other_ use of the header that was finally ruled illegitimate in 2001 (although technopeasants keep demanding its forced application, in less-clued places than Dng). http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/netiquette.html#replyto To illustrate the legitmate use-case, consider my recent situation when I knew I would be about a small ship for a while, hence having irregular if any Internet access. In that case, I might wish to signal in outgoing mail an alternate direct-reply address where I might use webmail. (My linuxmafia.com server doesn't have webmail.) My wife Deirdre's deirdre.net server does have webmail, so I might do: From: Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: On the ocean, next week Reply-To: Rick Moen <r...@deirdre.net> This says 'If you happen to send a direct reply to this message, I'd prefer that it go to my alternate r...@deirdre.net mailbox, rather than to the one I'm sending this from. Thanks.' _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
