Re: [nail-devel] alias expansions in "Reply-To:" fields

[Gunnar R. <gu...@ac...>]

Martin Neitzel <ne...@ga...> wrote:

> In particular the section states:
>
> 	In mail the user sends, personal aliases will be expanded in
> 	mail sent to others so that they will be able to reply to  the
> 	recipients [...]
>
> This is certainly intended to be understood like this:

I still hold that it says "reply to the _recipients_" of "mail
the user sends", not to the senders of such mail.

Nevertheless, I already said that I can understand why you
like to have a shortcut mechanism. Still, your last message
did not answer my question,

| Do you really think it is useful to have the same name
| space for lists of senders as for lists of recipients?

that is, do you ever use the same alias for "from" as
well as for "to"?

> The POSIX standard doesn't say "expand for recipient
> addresses and only there".  Expanding aliases in sender addresses would
> still be conforming behaviour, even if you don't like to classify the
> Reply-To: address as "recpient" at any point in time.)

I am not so sure. Do you have serious experience in the
formal interpretation of standards?

	Gunnar