From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 14 08:49:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09181 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:49:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09176 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:49:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA26368; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:45:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:45:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199810141545.IAA26368@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: groggy@iname.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail (Reply-TO?) In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 04:17:11 -0800 (AKDT) >From: Steve Howe >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