Path: utzoo!mnetor!motto!murray
From: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Determing mail reply address?
Keywords: mail headers, reply_to_hdr
Message-ID: <340@motto.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 91 15:05:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan31.203213.21271@cbnews.att.com> <1991Feb1.153142.6424@rick.doc.ca>
Reply-To: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Organization: Communications Division, Motorola Canada Ltd., Toronto
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andrew@calvin.doc.ca.UUCP writes:
>djb@cbnews.att.com (David J. Bryant) writes:
>>Two (compound) questions, then:
>>
>>1) What is the "standard" order in which these fields should be checked to 
>>   formulate a reply?  (In other words, what should I set reply_to_hdr to
>>   be?)  If there's not a standard, is their a best choice you mail gurus
>>   would recommend?  Is mush's default setting the best one for me to use?
>
>I have had the most luck with:
>
>set reply_to_hdr='reply-to from return-path sender from_'

That's roughly what I use as well...  with a "return-receipt-to" in there
as well.

>>2) Which of these fields should I set using mush's my_hdr command?  I can,
>>   for example, set the Sender: header to be my preferred send-to address,
>>   but is that better than setting Reply-to:?  Are either (or both) of these
>>   fields guaranteed to be untouched by mail agents, or is it the case that
>>   one (or both) may be re-written at will by mailers through who my mail
>>   passes?
>
>I just set the Reply-To header:
>
>my_hdr Reply-to: andrew@calvin.doc.ca

Normally you should just put your userid in there, and sendmail/smail/whatever
will add the rest, be it hostname! before your userid, or @machine.site.domain
after your userid.

>-- 
>Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
>andrew@calvin.doc.CA
>                    "The interface IS the program."

=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
Motorola Canada, Ltd.     Communications Division, Toronto      [on work term]
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada               2B Math/Computer Science
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