[Qt-interest] From/Reply-to address in Qt-Interest email header

Sat Jan 10 10:24:27 CET 2009

On 10.01.09 11:06:25, Syam Krishnan wrote:
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> Hi..<br>
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> All emails from Qt-Interest have 'From' address set to the email ID of
> the sender, and not <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:qt-interest at trolltech.com">qt-interest at trolltech.com</a>.<br>
> The Reply-to ID is also not set. This makes it very difficult to reply
> to posts. I've to select 'Reply to All', and remove the personal 'To'
> ID, and change qt-interest ID from 'CC' to 'To'.<br>
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> Is it just my thunderird or everybody is having the problem?<br>

Thats actually normal and considered good behaviour :) Proper email clients
support a special list-reply mode in which they reply only to the list
(some clients don't even need configuration for that as they understand
some of the special mailinglist-headers that mailinglists set). Thunderbird
does have support for list-reply, but IIRC its an extension instead of
being built into the code.

For more information on why setting Reply-To to the list is not good,
google for "Reply-To considered harmful".

Andreas

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