[Haskell-cafe] Re: [off-topic / administrative] List Reply-to

Benjamin Franksen benjamin.franksen at bessy.de
Sat Oct 14 17:21:05 EDT 2006


Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> Robert Dockins wrote:
>> I think (pure
>> speculation) the haskell.org mail server is set up to omit people from
>> mail it sends if they appear in the To: or Cc: of the original mail.
> 
> Yes, this is a feature of recent Mailmans.
> 
>> Finally, I agree that reply-to munging is a bad idea, but I don't think
>> appealing to a definition of 'reasonable mailer' that doesn't match a
>> large portion of mail clients currently in the wild is a good way to
>> argue the point.
> 
> Gnus might have been the first one to have it, but mutt (very popular in
> hackerdom) was perhaps the one that popularized it.  I am currently
> using Mozilla Thunderbird, for which it is available as an extension
> (unfortunately, it also requires a patch for Thunderbird; but Debian sid
> has already applied it).

KMail (at least in KDE 3.5.4) has it, too.

Ben



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