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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:18:05 -0500
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Subject: Re: Your setting Return-Path to YOU in your cygwin@cygwin postings
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: pmcferrin@columbus.rr.com, cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Paul McFerrin wrote:
> I thank you both for enlightning me on this subject.
>
> I'm using the Thunderbird email client. =C2=A0I have observed that it is =
wrongly
> using the "Return-Path" and not the "Reply-To" even in the email composing
> phase before the ISP gets involved. =C2=A0I'll watch that more or seekout=
 a RFC
> compliant email client.

Thunderbird is one of the more obsessively-RFC-compliant mail user
agents out there, and I would be quite surprised if this were the
case.  I see a bug reporting such behavior -
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D396273 - but that turned
out to be a side effect of the SMTP server, which was changing the
From: address to match the Reply-To.

This stuff is not hard to test:

$ sendmail -t <<EOF
From: from.address@example.com
To: <my email address>
Return-Path: return.path@example.com
Subject: Testing

Where does a reply go?
EOF

When the message arrived in Thunderbird, I hit "reply"; it correctly
addressed the reply to 'from.address', not 'return.path'.  So I don't
think your MUA is the problem.

--=20
Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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