notmuch-reply doesn't use Reply-To
Tomi Ollila
tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Fri Dec 4 07:06:11 PST 2015
On Fri, Dec 04 2015, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> Damien Cassou <damien at cassou.me> writes:
>
>> "To" : "rmod at inria.fr",
>> "Reply-To" : "rmod at inria.fr",
>> "From" : "seaside at rmod.inria.fr",
>> "Subject" : "[rmod] [Mm10s] 2015-11-30",
>> "Date" : "Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:00:01 +0100"
>
> A quick look at the code suggests this is falling victim to the
> "reply-to munging" detection code, which considers a reply-to field
> redudant if it duplicates one of the other fields. From the source
>
> /* Some mailing lists munge the Reply-To header despite it being A Bad
> * Thing, see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
> *
> * The munging is easy to detect, because it results in a
> * redundant reply-to header, (with an address that already exists
> * in either To or Cc). So in this case, we ignore the Reply-To
> * field and use the From header. This ensures the original sender
> * will get the reply even if not subscribed to the list. Note
> * that the address in the Reply-To header will always appear in
> * the reply.
> */
For anyone who did that feature, Thank You ! :D
Tomi
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