Graham Murray wrote:
"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com> writes:
The suggestion
that they should have to keep track of the list in order for email to work
properly is met with disbelief. This is a pretty reasonable set of end-user
expectations, actually.
I disagree about it being reasonable. To my mind there seems absolutely
no point in having these additional email addresses which all forward
to the one ESP account if replies are sent (both rfc2821 and 2822) from
the ESP account rather than the forwarded email address.
Even if replies are sent from the final ESP account, From and Reply-To
headers may indicate otherwise. Of course, that is a problem if forwarding
is meant to conceal the true user's identity.
However, if many users do so, then it must be reasonable!
As far as FF is concerned, mailing lists can be treated like forwarding,
which is an example we all are making use of.
If someone
sends an email to user(_at_)example(_dot_)com which is forwarded to
user1(_at_)esp(_dot_)com
and the response comes back from user1(_at_)esp(_dot_)com, the sender is likely
to
update his address book and in future send directly to user1(_at_)esp(_dot_)com
(thinking that the recipient has changed his email address).
Which is another problem with this type of forwarding (rather than
forwarding an email to someone else to handle or for information etc),
Do you mean wrapping inside a mime rfc822 message?
that it is often not simple for the recipient to send any reply as
though from the forwarded account rather than the final destination
(where it is actually being read).
Some clients are quite good at handling several identities on a single
account, automatically using the correct From header.
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