vnc-list Outlook problems, was RE: Noise on the vnc-list :

[Joseph A. Knapka]

"Morris, Steve" wrote:
> 
> I haven't bothered to look into it but the vnc-list mail format confuses MS
> outlook. It doesn't see the original sender unless you jump through some
> special hoops. The result is that is very hard for an Outlook user (at least
> the flavor used at my site) to reply directly to the sender instead of to
> the list. Since Outlook makes it nearly impossible to see the raw message it
> is a little hard to debug which is why I haven't persued it.
> 

This problem is not unique to Outlook. In fact, all mail user agents
I have used (Netscape, Outlook, an old-ish Rmail) by default *do not*
include *any* other address in the "To" line of a reply besides the
"Reply-To" address when the Reply-To header is present; this is true
regardless of whether you "reply" or "reply all". This fact led me
to believe that MUAs are required to treat Reply-To in this
manner, though I have not verified it.

Reply-To is evil for other reasons, eg autoreply loops; it is just
blind luck that that particular disaster hasn't bitten us yet.
Without the Reply-To header, "reply" lets you talk to the author,
and "reply all" lets you talk to the list; I don't see why that
is a problem, unless there are user on the list that use MUAs
without a "reply all" command.

-- Joe Knapka
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