Change in email replies?

Klaus-Peter Schrage kpschrage
Sat Sep 4 09:45:01 PDT 2004


Tim Wunder wrote:

<snip>


> how could a change in google's gmail settings affect bmarsh's e-mail, which 
> was not sent from a gmail account?
> 
> The simple fact is that bmarsh has a reply-to set in his mailer, which, 
> according to the headers in his original message, is kmail 1.6.2, and is 
> user-configurable. How gmail configures reply-to could certainly be 
> different, i don't have a gmail account to test with. Your e-mail came thru 
> with a reply-to set as your gmail account and the list account, so a standard 
> reply would reply to both. It is obviously something that gmail is adding to 
> you message headers and has nothing to do with the list. Whether it can be 
> stopped via user configuration of your gmail account you'll have to figger 
> out on your own.
> 
> Of course, I reserve the option to be completely wrong on my analysis...

Strange, of all eight messages in this thread, only Bruce's and Collins' 
give me a double "To" to sender and list when I hit "reply to sender 
only" in mozilla mail, the rest goes to list only - but all posts have a 
reply-to set to the list in their header.
Klaus


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