[Nouveau] reply-to header

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 08:00:57PM +0100, Xavier wrote:
>   
>> Afaik the absence of that header is the reason that the reply button
>> in mail clients or in gmail answers to the sender rather than to the
>> mailing list.
>> Does anyone know why that header is not included ?
>> I consider it a must have for any mailing list, without reply-to it's
>> quite impractical.
>>     
>
> and what about people who are not subscribed? with "reply-to" header
> would "reply" still cc them?
>   
No, it would omit them. Thus for open mailing lists no reply-to header 
should be used. At least some ML software can be configured to remove 
duplicates (i.e. don't send message to recipients in CC). Of course the 
MUA's "reply all" functionality should be used when working with open MLs.

Some MUAs (e.g. mutt) have a "list reply" functionality that can be used 
to send to the ML only.

Br,
Erik