Reply-To header

[Robin Berjon]

On Jan 27, 2010, at 21:20 , Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> On Wednesday 27. January 2010 00:15:03 Gregory Williams wrote:
>> Is there a way to set up the list to add a default Reply-To header? Is
>> this something people would be OK with doing? I much prefer having it
>> set up that way, especially for a small group like ours where most
>> responses will be relevant to the rest of the group.
> 
> Yes, this is trivial to do. I myself don't like it that much, since people 
> tend to not expect the default behaviour to be reply-to-list and such list 
> mail occasionally ends up to the list when it was intended to be personal. 
> OTOH, I prefer to have reply-to-s to my mails sent just to the list, since 
> it eases filtering.
> 
> My MUA (Kmail) uses the mailing list by default if configured, so it is 
> possible. Anyway, I'll follow the consensus, what do others think?

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Most MUA have at the very least Reply To All (which includes the list) and Reply (so you can just talk to the author). Munging Reply-To screws up that nice distinction.

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