At 10:53 AM 16/7/96, Richard Pieri wrote:
>>>>>> "WB" == Whitlock, Brad <BWhitloc@smtpmail.micro.honeywell.com>
>>>>>> writes:
>WB> Sounds like the list setup and the autoresponder are more to blame
>WB> than Reply-To.
>
>Reply-To must be honored when it exists. The autoresponder is acting
>correctly when it honors the Reply-To header. To hold it responsible
>for doing something incorectly in this case is laughable, because it is
>not doing anything incorrectly. You (as the list owner) told it to send
>its replies to your mailing list by setting a Reply-To header. If you
>do not want it to send replies to your mailing list, do not tell it to
>do so.
Reply-To overrides the From header, not the Sender header. Since Sender
is the intended recipient of error message and delivery notification,
including vacation messages, then the autoresponder is behaving
incorrectly.
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Stephen Graham
graham@ee.washington.edu
graham@cs.washington.edu
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