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In article <8120014@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant) writes:
>> For example, I set mine to Reply-To, Return-Path, From.  This is usually
>> the best list to choose from.

>I'm surprised you haven't been burned by this.  Return-Path is not a valid
>header to use for replies.  In many cases, it holds the path only back to the
>last system, not the originator.  If you check your RFCs, it isn't intended
>as an originator mail path.

But in many cases it is a legitimate path.  Of course, I check the path
anyway to see if it is correct.  In the cases where it isn't, I just kill
the reply and reply again with different values in my reply_to_hdr variable.
Because Mush has command line aliases, I condense all the required commands
to simple keystrokes ...

mush> cmd R 'set reply_to_hdr = reply-to ; replyall'
mush> cmd r 'unset reply_to_hdr ; replysender'
etc...

"cmd" is the way to set a command line alias ("alias" is reserved for
compatibility with Mail).  Now, all I have to do is use R, r, or one of
my other aliases.  Because not all mailers guarantee that the correct
address will be in the same header, I can't use the same set of headers
to get the reply path.

Besides, the whole point to my posting was that mush makes it _configurable_
about which header you want to use.
Dan Heller	<island!argv@sun.com>