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New page: Mail-Followup-To (MFT) and Mail-Reply-To (MRT) are email header fields that tells a mail user agent (MUA) like Thunderbird how to reply to messages which is especially helpful using mailin...
Mail-Followup-To (MFT) and Mail-Reply-To (MRT) are email header fields that tells a mail user agent (MUA) like Thunderbird how to reply to messages which is especially helpful using mailing lists.
== Introduction: How MUAs reply to email messages ==
MUAs have (at least) two reply functions: reply-to-author and reply-to-all.
If you reply-to-author, your MUA creates a new message and sets the To header to the original message's From header. If the original message contains a Reply-To header, your MUA uses its content instead of From. This way the original message's author can tell you to reply to another address if he wants to get replies there.
If you reply-to-all, your MUA creates a new message and sets the To header like above. Additionally it sets the new messages Cc header to the list of all recipients (To+Cc) of the original message, probably excluding your own address.
All these things work pretty well so far, but problems arise with mailing lists:
== Introduction: Reply problems with mailing lists ==
TODO
== The solution ==
TODO
== Configure Thunderbird ==
TODO
Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To header fields were [http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html proposed by Dan Bernstein]
== Introduction: How MUAs reply to email messages ==
MUAs have (at least) two reply functions: reply-to-author and reply-to-all.
If you reply-to-author, your MUA creates a new message and sets the To header to the original message's From header. If the original message contains a Reply-To header, your MUA uses its content instead of From. This way the original message's author can tell you to reply to another address if he wants to get replies there.
If you reply-to-all, your MUA creates a new message and sets the To header like above. Additionally it sets the new messages Cc header to the list of all recipients (To+Cc) of the original message, probably excluding your own address.
All these things work pretty well so far, but problems arise with mailing lists:
== Introduction: Reply problems with mailing lists ==
TODO
== The solution ==
TODO
== Configure Thunderbird ==
TODO
Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To header fields were [http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html proposed by Dan Bernstein]
