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[David A. Bandel]

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 19:53:23 -0600
Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 
> Interesting; I wish I had some control over this, but gmail appears to
> have some interesting processing under the covers. I checked out
> attempts to reply to a number of the mails from linux-users (I can
> only see the To: addresses, not any of the headers.)

In gmail under Settings, there is a Reply-To: field setting.  By default
it has checked to put your e-mail address in the Reply-To: field. 
Mailman is not deleting your Reply-To: field, just adding its own.

If you want to change gmail, I suggest you select the empty box and put
nothing in it.  Then, your gmail Reply-To: field should be blank and all
should return to normal for you.  This is not obvious, and I put in a
suggestion to Gmail to change this.

Alma has his Reply-To: also being set (as do all those using gmail). 
Alma isn't using gmail, so it's his e-mail client setup.

> 
> >From                             To                                
> >To
> (Results of hitting Reply)
> 
> David (this mail)             me, the list                    David
> !!! vik1ngo (a gmail user)   self, the list                    self,
> the list Alma                               the list                  
>        
> self, the list
> Bill                                  the list                        
>   self, the list twice!!!
> Kurt                                the list                          
> the list twice!!!
> Ken                                the list                           
> the list Tony                              the list                   
>         the list
> Javier                             the list                           
> self, the list
> 
> Bill and Kurt win the prize, since whatever headers they are using
> cause multiple iterations of the same list address.

Probably because there are multiple iterations of the same address in
the Reply-To: field for Bill and Kurt because they are replies to
previous messages which already contained their addresses in the
Reply-To: field.

> 
> I probably don't understand this at all. It seems to me that Sylpheed
> picks up on the mailing list header and uses that, if present. What is
> the appropriate RFC???? behavior for replies, or is this totally a
> crap shoot?

Reply-To: is an optional field, but not one that should be capriciously
deleted by mailers.  When present, it is used.  When not present, the
From: field is used in replies (except in Reply-All which uses From: and
CC: -- but not BCC: addresses which To: and CC: recipients aren't
supposed to see).

Note:  My Sylpheed configuration deletes duplicate e-mails so even if a
reply came to both the list and myself, one copy would be deleted
automatically.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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