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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
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