>-- Martijn
On this mailing list, I want Reply-to to point to the list; on some others,
I want it to point to the poster. I used to send private replies to these
lists by mistake because of this problem.
My remedy was to hack up a Perl script to change the Reply-to: header.
It is invoked from my mail preprocessor, filter(1) on a Unix system,
which I'm using anyway to save mail from each mailing list to a separate
file. By invoking variations of the script for different mailing lists,
I can automatically set the Reply-to: header (or anything else in the
message) according to my own preferences.
In other words, thanks to this simple hack, I no longer care what the
mailing list presets the Reply-to header to. If you find this useful,
the script is at
http://www.win.tue.nl/~reinpost/tools/reply-to-from
(The script is a hack, not a fool-proof RFC-822-compliant mail processor.)
I invoke it by putting into my .elm/filter-rules lines like the following:
to "cool-list" ?
exec "/my/home/bin/reply-to-from >> /my/home/MAIL/new.cool 2>&1"
-- Reinier Post reinpost@win.tue.nl