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Subject: Re: [boost] [mailing list] No Reply-To in messages?
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-21 22:35:25


On 03/22/17 01:34, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 03/22/17 01:21, Steven Watanabe via Boost wrote:
>> AMDG
>>
>> On 03/21/2017 04:05 PM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Daniel James via Boost
>>> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that Andrey was cc'd in the email, which arrived before
>>>> the email from the mailing list. Both mails have the same message-id,
>>>> so gmail discards the second one it receives. This means the mailing
>>>> list software doesn't have a chance to change the headers.
>>>
>>> I see. So the problem appears whenever a person does Reply to All,
>>> which sends two messages - to the ML and the original author that is
>>> specified in CC? But was the older infrastructure adding CC to the
>>> messages from the ML? I think it wasn't. Do we need the CC?
>>>
>>
>> The From field used to be the sender, but was
>> changed to be the list. Without the CC, the
>> sender's email won't appear anywhere. Besides
>> which, reply all could always cause this issue
>> (and I have observed it occasionally in the past).
>
> The sender is still present in the From on my end. Here's what I see in
> your message:
>
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> From: Steven Watanabe via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Reply-To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Cc: Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>
> Sender: "Boost" <boost-bounces_at_[hidden]>
>
> Your message contains Reply-To, so when I hit Reply the composed message
> is correctly addressed to boost_at_lists.boost.org.

Oh, disregard that. I sent it before I actually read the email address.
Sorry.


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