Mail reply-to, redirects and forwarding ...

[Paul Sargent]

On 17 Dec 2007, at 19:33, Charles Jacobs wrote:

> On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Paul Sargent wrote:
>>
>> * Somebody e-mails you at all your addresses. They don't know which  
>> one you check, so they spam all of them.
>> * You receive multiple copies.
>> * You respond. The from address is set to your main address, any  
>> other addresses that it knows will result in duplicates are removed.
> No, actually the from address is set to whichever one my unsure  
> friend happened to put first in the To field

Ok. I misunderstood. I thought it was the first account in mail.

>> Thunderbird may deal with your situation better as it's often used  
>> on Windows machines where this one-user-for-everyone set-up is far  
>> more common. It's quite a change from Mail.app though.
>
> Thunderbird? Horrors!

Didn't think that'd be received very well :-) Might be a case of the  
cure being worse than the disease.