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From: kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Smail 3.1 Mailing Lists -- Reply-To????
Message-ID: <121545@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 6 Feb 91 18:50:14 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.161404.28382@coplex.uucp>
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dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:
 >    Recently I have installed Smail 3.1.18 on our machine and everything
 > is working perfectly.  No problems whatsoever.
 > 
 >    However, I have a question:
 > 
 >    When creating a "mailing-list" using the ":include:" structure
 > inside the aliases file, is it possible to have smail make the Reply-To:
 > appear to be the mailing list name?  Or perhaps the From:
 > line?

Please don't do either of these things.  The From header shoudl
reflect who the mail really is from.  And the Reply-To header is
for the author's use, not the use of forwarding agents such as
mailing list exploders.

If you make the From or Reply-To headers point at the mailing
list, you make it difficult for subscribers to reply to just the
author of the message.  If you leave the headers alone the reply
and reply-all commands of most mailers will do the expected
thing.  Reply will use From or Reply-To, and reply-all will these
plus the contents of the To and Cc headers, one of which will
presumably contain the mailing list address.