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[Discuss] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond



Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> writes:

> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:05:12PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
>> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 06:55:13PM -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
>> > With the caveat that I did not list Mutt by name but that's quibbling.
>> > Point is, as you've experienced yourself, Mutt's behavior is not
>> > consistent when improperly-set Reply-To fields are in play.
>> 
>> I admit I'd forgotten this; for the longest time I had a patch which I
>> wrote to fix this applied to my mutt; Mutt dev being what it is
>> (basically dead) the maintainers didn't have any interest in applying
>> it.  I have no use to maintain patches forever so I stopped bothering.
>
> I meant to also comment that with list-reply functionality, it's
> (currently) largely a non-issue since reply-to is rarely set by anyone
> except for some mailing lists which still think this is a good idea,
> of which I am currently subscribed to zero.

you are subscribed to this list... which just had a reply-to set to
reply back to the list...

-derek

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