Re: [PATCH] [packages] sendmail.el: try REPLYTO from environment
Simon Josefsson writes:
Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)xemacs.org> writes:
> Thought it would be useful to check the REPLYTO environment variable
> when finding user-mail-address.
I don't agree -- trn, elm, etc use the REPLYTO environment variable to
populate the Reply-To: header, and this is also how sendmail.el
already behaves. I haven't seen it being used to populate the From:
address, and isn't `user-mail-address' used for other things
(anonymous ftp address, changelog entries etc) as well? It doesn't
seem like the right thing.
What do you think?
There are good reasons why the two headers are distinct. Some people
have situations that force a particular From header, but have liberty
in setting the Reply-To (I used to have this). I don't think
populating user-mail-address from REPLYTO would be a good idea.
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Robert Pluim