Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird email client ignores Reply-To field...

As annoying as this new behavior in Thunderbird might seem, RFC 2822 doesn't actually require that MUAs to always use the address in the Reply-To header when present. It only says:

   The originator fields also provide the information required when
   replying to a message.  When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it
   indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message suggests
   that replies be sent.

It doesn't say MUST or SHOULD, only "suggests". I'd have preferred that it added a "Reply to sender" option instead of changing the behavior of an existing function, but I don't make the rules.

Best regards,

//CMFM

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com> wrote:

Charlie,

Good to know. But, I'm no more likely to remember to hit Reply List
than to hit Reply-To-All, which would also send to the list. I wanted
a fix that would mean I could just hit Ctrl-R (Cmd-R on Mac) as usual
and have it do the right thing. The Config Editor setting does that for
me.

Thanks!
--Fred
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On 6/21/18 4:50 PM, Charlie Li wrote:

On 21/06/2018 15:58, Fred Stluka wrote:

Thunderbird users who post to PLUG,

I just noticed that some of my replies to this list never got here.

The reason is that a recent upgrade of my Thunderbird email
client started ignoring Reply-To fields in emails from mailing
lists like PLUG. So replies go only to the From field (the original
poster), not the Reply-To field (the PLUG list).

This was an intentional change by the Thunderbird developers.
I'm not sure why, and I've asked them to change it back. See
details here:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470271

I'm running 52.8.0 (soon 52.9.0). There is a "reply list" button when
Thunderbird detects a mailing list, which populates the To header with
the mailing list address instead of the poster's.

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