OT -- > GMail and Reply-To: Advice

[Gustavo Seabra]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:38:28 -0500, Paul M. Bucalo
<pmbuc at pmbservices.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 12:21 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> >
> > Ok. If I do that, what happens to my personal e-mail? Will people
> > still be able to reply directly to me? (sorry if it is too stupid a
> > question.)
> 
> Of course! :0)
> 
> The "Reply-To:" field would be useful when you are emailing from one
> account address, but would like the replying party to redirect their
> reply to another email address instead instead. Many lists fill the
> "Reply-To:" with their own reply address so that a list member would
> only have to click on the "Reply" button in their favorite email client
> and properly post their reply to the list, exclusively.
> 
> This is what the headers of one of your previous posts looked like in
> Evolution on my laptop, before you made the change:
> 
>                               From:
> Gustavo Seabra
> <gustavo.seabra at gmail.com>
>                           Reply-To:
> Gustavo Seabra
> <gustavo.seabra at gmail.com>, For
> users of Fedora Core releases
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>                                 To:
> skimble04 at gmail.com, For users of
> Fedora Core releases <fedora-
> list at redhat.com>
>                            Subject:
> Re: Werid Mozilla Firefox Problem on
> Fedora Core 3
>                               Date:
> Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:11:41 -0600
> (13:11 EST)
> 
> Notice that the "Reply-To:" has *vour* email address, as well as that of
> the list's. If I were to click on Evolution's "reply" button, I would
> end up sending the same email to you *and* to the list. You would end up
> getting doubles and wonder why.
> 
> Now, after you made change, here's what one of your post's headers look
> like:
> 
>                               From:
> Gustavo Seabra
> <gustavo.seabra at gmail.com>
>                           Reply-To:
> For users of Fedora Core releases
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>                                 To:
> For users of Fedora Core releases
> <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>                            Subject:
> Re: OT -- > GMail and Reply-To:
> Advice
>                               Date:
> Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:21:54 -0600
> (13:21 EST)
> 
> See the difference? Anyone replying to your post, regardless of email
> client or operating system would send it to the list. This is why lists
> tend to fill this field with their own list address.
> 
> Unfortunately, not all programmers (as in those working Google's GMail
> and Spymac.com's Gigabyte email client) understand this, else there
> would be a provision in the settings to turn off this feature, or make
> it something you must turn on only if you want it. This is why I
> abandoned the use of Spymail. You can't even choose what that field will
> hold.
> 
> I haven't seen much said here, but from what one friend has told me
> about some other lists, GMail posts are being filtered personally or
> blacklisted. Is this true? Don't know that it is, but the fact that it's
> being said suggests a lot of people are annoyed with the problem.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Paul

Thanks Paul, that explanation was as clear as it gets :-)

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