Cc: poster

[John Summerfied]

Angela Kahealani wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 04:23:
> 
>>>And, please don't set reply-to in your email clients. I often find
>>>my outgoings in need of pruning.
>>
>>Um. IMHO if they set reply-to, they're *asking* you to CC them, and
>>there's no reason not to honour that.
> 
> 
> There is another very good reason to set Reply-to:, e.g. my scenario:
> I have a single incoming e-mail address in one domain, but most of my
> outgoing e-mails come from another domain, and therefore, because the 
> outgoing domain does not receive e-mails at all, reply-to ensures that 

I read regularly mail from at four machines (and occasionally on two 
more) and use two or more email clients on every one of them.

I use
kmail (less frequently now)
mutt (which I don't like much)
Mozilla
Firefox
Evolution (I'm not fond of that either)
pine
Mail (OS X)

I read mail from several of my accounts with most of those clients.

All of them (possibly excepting mutt) can set From: automatically 
depending on which account I'm reading. I don't need to set reply-to on 
any of them.



> no matter which of the 4 or 5 machines I email from, and no matter 
> which  domain they show the e-mail as being from, that any and all 
> replies will come to the one and only incoming domain. While normally 
> I'm using a decent e-mail client that allows forging the From: address 

I think you're misusing the word "forge." Forge speaks of fraudulent 
activity, and when I set my email client to use any of my email 
addresses there's no fraudulent activity involved - I'm not trying to 
deceive anyone.

> to look like my incoming address, sometimes the Reply-To: is the only 
> way to guarantee that it is even possible to get an email to me. Now, 
> if you've got a way to solve these problems without using Reply-To, I'm 
> all ears! Oh, and, By-The-Way, I don't want an e-mail CC of any reply 
> you send to a mailing list, I don't need two copies of your email, and 

When I hit "reply" in Mozilla Mail it has your address as one of the 
"to:" addresses. I have to remember to remove it.



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