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

[Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>]

Carlos,

True, but in the examples in Appendix A it says:

   Note the "Reply-To:" field in the above message.  When John replies
   to Mary's message above, the reply should go to the address in the
   "Reply-To:" field instead of the address in the "From:" field.

Admittedly, it says "should" and not "SHOULD", which seems to be a
critical difference, and it's only in the examples sections which says
that it's not "normative" and doesn't override the rules in the rest of
the RFC.

Still, the intention is clear and and has been followed for 41 years,
since it was stated in 1977 in RFC 724, then RFC 733, then RFC 822,
then RFC 2822 and now finally RFC 5322.

Why change after 41 years?  I'm assuming there must be some
reason Thunderbird did this.  I've asked why in my bug report, but
no answer yet:
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470271

--Fred
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On 6/21/18 7:39 PM, Carlos M. Fernández wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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>     Fred Stluka -- Bristle Software, Inc. -- http://bristle.com
>     #DontBeATrump -- Make America Honorable Again!
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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
>             <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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