> Does it bother anyone else that mail from the python list does not set
> the Reply-To: field in the mail header? It messes me up because my
> mailer looks for that first, and not finding that uses the From: field.
>
> What this means is that if I want to reply to the list, I have to jump
> through a bit of a hoop (nothing big, but more difficult than just
> saying 'reply')...
I think setting the Reply-To header is something the author of the
message should do.
There are usually two possibilities when replying to a message in the
mailing list. You can either send the reply just to the author, or
you can send the reply to the whole list. When there is a Reply-To
header, the author of the article has made this choice for you.
Therefore I don't think it is a good idea to put this header in
automatically.
I just noticed that the Reply-To header got stripped in the news to
mail gateway, but I have fixed that.
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