Errors-to: owner-drums@CS.UTK.EDU
Message-Id: <199508151536.LAA27082@panix4.panix.com>
To: Eric Allman <eric@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
cc: perry@piermont.com, ietf-drums <drums@CS.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Reply-To" 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Aug 1995 08:31:00 PDT."
             <199508151531.IAA07758@mastodon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> 
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 11:36:48 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@panix.com>


Eric Allman writes:
> "My own" mailer (by which I assume you mean sendmail)

Naturally! (And if it isn't "yours" certainly no one else would want
to claim it because then they would have to maintain it. :-)

> makes no such restriction and never has: it restricts you from
> setting the _envelope_ from address, but not the _header_ from
> address, which is what we are talking about.

Hmmm. My mistake.  I would agree that given what you have just
mentioned, the incentive to hack in reply-to:'s for my purpose goes
down. I suppose what we really need is to be much more active in
getting MUAs to make it simple to do that. I'm going to see about
switching strategies myself...

.pm

PS Of course, letting people set From: in the MUAs makes it that much
clearer that there is no security, but we all knew that to begin with.