[projectaon] Re: Book orders

  • From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:56:46 +0100

On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Jonathan Blake wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 11:29 AM, Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > The script creating the email to the list could add a Reply-to
> > header with the email address of the poster (or with the poster's
> > address and the mailing list's address).
> >
> > Looking at the messages received from the mailing list the Reply-to
> > header is apparently set to the address of the mailing list by the
> > mailing list. So the above might not work.
>
> I could turn of the Reply-To munging, but then regular list messages
> would run into the problem of only going to the original sender by
> default instead of the whole list.
>
> I researched a bit and came across the Mail-Followup-To header:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-drums-mail-follo
>wup-to-00.txt

Ah, right. Yeah, that's the correct header to use.


> I don't know if it's a standard, but Gmail seems to respect it. When
> I "Reply" (not "Reply to all") to the test messages that I sent, it
> includes the list and the original sender in the To field. Does that
> work with everyone else's mail client?

It works with mine. Mail clients which cannot handle this header will 
(hopefully) simply ignore it. So it shouldn't do any harm to set this 
header.


Regards,
Ingo

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