Re: [Sheflug] Email addressess (was Emacs - formatting and datingfiles)

[Richard Stevenson <nospam [at] team.xtra.co.nz>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> 	The easiest thing to do is to set your Reply-To: header to
> whatever you want. The From: header can also be suitably "hacked" in the
> same way. I set this in the MUA (mutt in this case). You can use
> masquerading, but for a dial-up machine, I believe (some RFC?) it's
> better to use the Reply-To: header (of course, I could be wrong, but
> again, it's been working fine for the last couple of years here :D)

Setting reply-to: is fine, as long as you trust your correspondents' MUAs
to actually *use* it; MickeyMouse MUAs, in particular, are notorious for
getting this wrong.  Their original PoS (that monstrosity that shipped
with Duhs 95) used the Return-Path: instead, more recent ones use From:
instead of Reply-To:.  Of course, we all knew their monkeys are trained to
ignore standards...

Personally, I use Sendmail with genericstable, but I'm a sick puppy :)

Cheers

Richard


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