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- From: syd@dsi.com (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Yet another enhancement suggestion...RETURN to confirm
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:23:51 -0500
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA
- Lines: 47
- Message-ID: <1kabgnINNjo5@dsinc.dsi.com>
- References: <1k0o3sINN1e5@ope001.iao.ford.com> <9301282335.AA13934@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- NNTP-Posting-Host: dsinc.dsi.com
-
- ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
- >Normally, replies *should* by default go to the address in the
- >Reply-To:, Sender:, or From: field (in descending order of
- >priority). But here one could override that with "-n" (for mail
- >from a newsgroup), or "-s) for the sender address, or "-f" for the
- >"From:" address.
-
- >Note btw that Elm v2.3 does *not* adhere to the above-mentioned
- >priority re Reply-To:/Sender:/From: as specified in RFC-822.
- >(Syd?) Is this also the case for v2.4?
- Well, I think you mis read RFC-822, and I quote:
- For systems which automatically generate address lists for
- replies to messages, the following recommendations are made:
-
- o The "Sender" field mailbox should be sent notices of
- any problems in transport or delivery of the original
- messages. If there is no "Sender" field, then the
- "From" field mailbox should be used.
-
- o The "Sender" field mailbox should NEVER be used
- automatically, in a recipient's reply message.
-
- o If the "Reply-To" field exists, then the reply should
- go to the addresses indicated in that field and not to
- the address(es) indicated in the "From" field.
-
-
- Standard for ARPA Internet Text Messages
-
-
- o If there is a "From" field, but no "Reply-To" field,
- the reply should be sent to the address(es) indicated
- in the "From" field.
-
- Thus:
- The sender field should NEVER be used for a reply address, and Elm
- does that. (Their capitalization, not mine)
-
- The Reply-to should be used before From, and if no Reply-To, use From...
- Elm half heartly follows this in that Reply-To traditionally occurs later
- in the headers than From and Elm uses the last it finds of From and Reply-to
- if so configured to honor them at all. 2.4 is like 2.3 in this regard.
- --
- ========================================================================
- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL20
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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