I must have created a strange rule...

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022, john--- via Filepro-list wrote:
>Sorry to not have responded to any emails on the list. I have been putting
>off the problem, but it must be a strange rule that I created.  The list
>traffic goes into a mailbox called fplist, but ot any note in the that
>folder which I Reply, the recipeint's address is always set to the sender's
>originating address.. Even when it clearly says the From address is some
>long string about "bounces on behlf of person at fplist. " as it should
>read.
>
>I'll investigate it tomorrow, but I'm thinking Outlook allowed me to do this
>without intending  it to be that way.  Maybe it is putting the actual
>sender's email into the ReplyTo field, but why would it do that?  Anyway,
>apologies for not responding for now.  

John:

The Reply-To: is to the original sender's address as it should
be.  My link to the article on Reply-To munging being harmful as
disappeared.  http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html.
This was from Chip Rosenthal's site, and can be found on the
wayback machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/20070209175216/http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

To reply to the list, one must use the email client's reply
to list. In mutt this 'L'. Thunderbird has a specific Reply to
list.  I don't know what it is in Outlook as I don't use anything
from Microsoft.  There are 'Delivered-To' and 'X-Original-To'
headers with the original sender's address.

Bill
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