Quoting Brian May via luv-main (luv-main@luv.asn.au):
Note that the Reply-To header is also set: Reply-To: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>
Yes, good point. Thank you.
So if your mail client is behaving, private replies should get to you as private replies.
(Yes, I know, replacing the Reply-To is also controversial)
The reason it's not only controversial but (since 2001) definitively a breaking of standards-compliant behaviour is that it overrides, discards, and replaces the sender's own legitimate user of that SMTP feature, as IETF reconfirmed in 2001 via RFC 2822: It is an optional SMTP feature in which the sender may indicate a desired reply-sender return address. RFC 2822 section 3.6.2 said about 'Originator fields': When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests that replies be sent. Mailing list software is not "the author of the message", so it should not set or alter the Reply-To header field. Said field is for the author's use. For example: If transitioning from 'rick@linuxmafia.com' to 'rick@unixmercenary.net', I might set 'Reply-To: Rick Moen <rick@unixmercenary.net>' in mail headers, signaling that any reply-sender responses should go to the latter. That is the intended and legitimate use of the header, other views prior to IETF settling the issue in 2001 notwithstanding. Any mailing list that discards & replaces the user's use of this optional header is interfering with user intentions and deliberately breaking Internet standards. The related question of 'How, then, should the desired reply-list address be signaled?' was answered in IETF's other 2001 statement on the issue, RFC 2369: The method of posting to the list can be stated in a List-Post header. Please see section 3.4 of that standards document for details if interested. With those two IETF standards documents, all legitimate controversy over Reply-To ended. Munging is not a legitimate use. -- Cheers, In time of crisis, people do not rise to the occasion; Rick Moen they default to the level of their training. rick@linuxmafia.com McQ! (4x80)