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Gilles Breton <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 19:05:12 -0400
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Thanks to Glenn Alperin who wrote:

>list, ignore     This setting basically means the same as list,
>                        respect, accept that instead of using the reply-to
>                        header by default if it exists, the messages will
>                        always get sent back to the list.
>
>Be aware all of this assumes that your users are using competant e-mail
>programs which will properly interpret the Reply-To header keyword.  If it
>is not a competant e-mail program, the most likely thing that will occur
>is that the program will send the reply back to the sender of the original
>message, and with regard to list e-mail, that would be back to the list
>itself.

I will see as I changed the list to list, ignore.

>
>>Is there a site somewhere on the Web where I can solutions for specific
>>email client to tell those people what to do?
>
>I believe some people have written such things up.
>
If anybody knows where I would be glad to read that.

From the long header of the subscribers, I found that all but two are
using either Netscape 3.01, 4.04 or 4.5b1 or b2, on PC or Mac (other
email clients are Outlook express 4.72 or Microsoft Internet mail 4.70).

Another person is using Netscape 4.06 Win95 and the reply-to is OK (same
for Netscape 4.05). Five other persons are using Outlook Express and the
reply-to is OK also, same for Internet Mail.

So, I don't understand why some subscribers, using the same sofware, have
the reply-to field set back to the list and some have the reply-to set to
their own address. Could it be the server?

Puzzled,


Gilles Breton
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