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Re: Understanding response protocols

2004-09-28 02:59:41

In <4155EC5A(_dot_)4090709(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly 
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:

D. J. Bernstein wrote:

The sender wants his MUA to make this request _automatically_ for any
message that he sends to various mailing lists. Old message injectors
don't have this feature, so they have to be changed.

Existing UAs do have this feature. It's called setting the content
of the standard Reply-To field, which has precisely the desired
semantics as specified in RFC 2822:

Which existing MUAs have the feature to set the Reply-To field
"_automatically_" according to the particular list(s) involved?

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