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Author: SH Solutions
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To: 'David Woodhouse', 'Richard Welty'
CC: exim-users
Subject: AW: [Exim] About this list
Hi

> > [1] back in the bad old days, there were certain mailers that would

ignore the setting of MAIL FROM: in the smtp envelope and send replies to
something that they dug out of the headers, which was often reply-to.
> Bizarre though it may seem, I've actually witnessed this utterly broken

behaviour _advocated_ quite recently :)

Just out of couriosity what is "reply-to" for? I don't write MUAs and
therefore haven't read all those RFCs, but I just assumed reply-to would be
the address to "reply to".

cu,
Steffen