Hi,
Is anyone doing work on some kind of header to allow senders to
indicate reply preferences (particularly for list mail)?
There appear to be a variety of implementations now recognising
Mail-Followup-To, unfortunately with various incompatible
interpretations of it.
Also, at least one implementation appears (depending on
configuration, or the version - i'm not sure) to consider a /lack/ of
an MFT to mean that the sender of an email being "list-reply"
deliberately did not insert an MFT and hence does not wish to be
included in a reply.
Other implementations treat MFT to be the exclusive address to
follow-up to.
It's an absolute mess, one which (as one of the seemingly few people
who prefer to receive both list and 'direct' copies on list replies)
causes me a lot of pain, as I have no way to indicate my preference
in a reliable fashion and as many people now use MUAs which suppress
personal copies by default.
The IETF should, IMHO, work on clarifying the matter, be it:
- that MFT will never be standardised and implementations should
*not* interpret it
or
- Standardise the behaviour of Mail-Followup-To and/or Mail-Copies-To
Anyone have views on this? (In particular, could anyone give me a
potted history - this apparently comes up regularly, but nothing ever
seems to make it to standards track..)
regards,
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