Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:45:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: groggy@iname.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail (Reply-TO?) Message-ID: <199810141545.IAA26368@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981014041238.4580C-100000@abc.xyz.net>
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>Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:17:11 -0800 (AKDT) >From: Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com> >Pine, Netscape, and BSD Mail seem to ignore "Reply-To:" >fields in email. Really??!? >I can put "set REPLYTO=xyz@somewhere.com" >in a ~/.mailrc file Well, the man page indicates that the REPLYTO that "mail" uses is an environment variable, not a variable set in ~/.mailrc. >and sent mail to myself, but when >i reply, it uses the "From:" field (seemingly so). Have you checked to see if the message has a Reply-To: header? Whenever I reply to a message that has a Reply-To: header, mail honors that specification -- and I've been using BSD "mail" (in various incarnations) as my MUA of choice since 1986. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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