Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 01:00:03 -0700 (PDT) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: gnu/1472: send-pr could have a configurable Reply-To field Message-ID: <199608080800.BAA19739@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR gnu/1472; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: leonard@dstc.edu.au
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gnu/1472: send-pr could have a configurable Reply-To field
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 08:28:59 +0200 (MET DST)
As David Leonard wrote:
> FROM="$LOGNAME"
> ! if [ -f $HOME/.reply-to ]; then
> ! REPLY_TO="`sed -e '1q' $HOME/.reply-to`"
> ! elif [ -z "$REPLY_TO" ]; then
> ! REPLY_TO="$LOGNAME"
> ! fi
I thought the silent convention is to use the environmental variable
${REPLYTO} for this purpose?
Many mailers and newsreaders do it this way, using a gratuitously
different method (~/.reply-to) is IMHO wrong.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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