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Article #9436"Reply-To:" rather than "Reply-to:"
From: Dan_Jacobson
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1991 17:37
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1991 17:37
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>>>>> On Wed, 7 Aug 91 19:26:07 +0200, Oliver Schoett >>>>> <schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> said in e-mail that I am >>>>> gratuitously sending all over the internet :-) : > Hmmm, RFC 822 says: > > o If the "Reply-To" field exists, then the reply should > go to the addresses indicated in that field and not to > the address(es) indicated in the "From" field. > > Seems the line to fix is: > vm-reply.el:480: (insert "Reply-to: " mail-default-reply-to "\n")) O> Well, RFC 822 also says: O> When matching any other syntactic unit, case is to be ignored. O> For example, the field-names "From", "FROM", "from", and even O> "FroM" are semantically equal and should all be treated ident- O> ically. O> When generating these units, any mix of upper and lower case O> alphabetic characters may be used. The case shown in this O> specification is suggested for message-creating processes. O> O> So primarily it is the receiver's fault not to recognize 'to', but O> it's certainly nicer of VM to follow the suggestion of 'To' when O> generating the header. O> Cheers, O> Oliver Schoett Inst. f. Informatik (H2), Technische Univ. M"unchen O> Postfach 20 24 20, 8000 M"unchen 2, Germany O> schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de phone +49 89 2105-2390 fax -8207 Yup, something like "be narrow in what you send, but wide in what you accept."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,f0c86bd571c380d0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-07 15:45:53 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!bug-vm From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: "Reply-To:" rather than "Reply-to:" Message-ID: <1991Aug7We123449.Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM> Date: 7 Aug 91 17:37:16 GMT References: <91Aug7.192612met_dst.5385@star.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Sender: bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.ATT.COM Lines: 35