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Thunderbird:Help Documentation:Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To

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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.
If you already know about how MFT and MRT work, you may just skip to [[Thunderbird:Help_Documentation:Mail-Followup-To_and_Mail-Reply-To#Configure Thunderbird|Configure Thunderbird]] == Introduction: How MUAs reply to email messages ==
MUAs have (at least) two reply functions: reply-to-author and reply-to-all.
All these things work pretty well so far, but problems arise with mailing lists:
== Introduction: Reply problems with mailing lists ==
TODO
== Configure Thunderbird ==
TODOFortunately, Thunderbird can do all these things automatically for you: * If you reply-to-author and Mail-Reply-To is set in the original message, Thunderbird uses it instead of Reply-To or From. This works since Thunderbird-1.5.* If you reply-to-all and Mail-Followup-To is set in the original message, Thunderbird uses it instead of (MRT or Reply-To or From)+To+Cc. This works since Thunderbird-1.5 with a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325429 minor bug] fixed in Thunderbird-3.0-beta1.* If you tell Thunderbird which mailing lists you are subscribed to, it will automatically set Mail-Followup-To when writing to one of these lists. This works since Thunderbird-3.0-beta1.* If you tell Thunderbird which mailing lists set Reply-To, it will automatically set Mail-Reply-To when writing to one of these lists. This works since Thunderbird-3.0-beta1. 
Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To header fields were [http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html proposed by Dan Bernstein]
Daniel-faber
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