On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 05:54:37PM -0800, David Champion wrote: > * On 22 Jan 2017, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > I think that a possible reason is to get more meaningful content when > > a user puts Reply-To to his own address but without a comment, e.g. > > > > From: Firstname Lastname <user@domain> > > Reply-To: user@domain > > > > So, "To: Firstname Lastname <user@domain>" is generated instead of > > just "To: user@domain". If this is the real reason, this may be a > > good feature, but I think that it would be preferable to do this > > only if the Reply-To header had only an e-mail address, without a > > comment. > > I haven't looked at this code or any history behind it. However, it > seems like the simplest and most correct (per RFC) behavior would be: > always use the reply-to address if present. But if the reply-to comment > is blank and the address is equal to From, sub in the comment that > appears in From. > > I think this is the same as Vincent's description and is what the OP is > asking for, but I'm trying to frame the logic in terms that make sense > in documentation rather than code.
Thank you Vincent and David, your explanations make sense to me. I'll make a patch to change this later today. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8975 A9B3 3AA3 7910 385C 5308 ADEF 7684 8031 6BDA
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