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"Reply-To:" rather than "Reply-to:"

#9439
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1991 18:39
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Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM writes:
 > >>>>> "F" == Flamingo Digest Administration <flamingo-request@ddsw1.mcs.com> writes:
 > 
 > F> By the way, the reply address in your header was marked "Reply-to:"
 > F> rather than "Reply-To:" so the mailer here didn't pick up on it and
 > F> used your From: line.
 > 
 > No kidding.  I'll "CC:" to VM-mailer headquarters for an adjudication.
 > 
 > 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"))

I'll probably fix this anyway for esthetic reasons, but for the record:

Header field names are supposed to be handled in a case insensiive manner.

>From RFC 822:

     3.4.7.  CASE INDEPENDENCE

        Except as noted, alphabetic strings may be represented in  any
        combination of upper and lower case.  The only syntactic units
        which requires preservation of case information are:

                    -  text
                    -  qtext
                    -  dtext
                    -  ctext
                    -  quoted-pair
                    -  local-part, except "Postmaster"

        When matching any other syntactic unit, case is to be ignored.
        For  example, the field-names "From", "FROM", "from", and even
        "FroM" are semantically equal and should all be treated ident-
        ically.
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References: <1991Aug6Tu142852.Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM> <1991Aug7We102321.Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM> <m0k7YKs-000090C@ddsw1.mcs.com>

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Subject: "Reply-To:" rather than "Reply-to:"
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