Not only that, but it is woefully shortsighted. For instance, when I reply to messages from email lists, sometimes I want to reply to the list, and sometimes to the originator. The variations in RFC-822 *compliant* email list headers are staggering; I have yet to see any mail software that understands the variety of syntactically- parseable signals that show that something is from a list, and allows me to easily reply to either the list or the sender.
Yeah. I am amazed that people don't get it right. My server sends out messages looking like this: From: anXXXXX@anon.penet.fi Reply-To: anXXXXX@anon.penet.fi Sender: anon@anon.penet.fi And there are _lots_ of systems out there that send te reply to "anon@anon.penet.fi"! Elm and VMSMail are the most obvious ones.
Similar comments apply to saving things interactively. I'm about to try procmail for non-interactive uses, but I still haven't seen a mailer that lets me say e.g. "(save (from cypherpunks | to cypherpunks | cc cypherpunks | Bcc cypherpunks | "From " cypherpunks) > savefile) & delete
Maybe I'm just email-challenged. Suggestions?
Try mh. It does all that. Julf