[Mutt] Re: Group reply To-vs-Cc recipients

[nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt]

On 2018-12-11, Derek Martin wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 08:39:31PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>> On 10.12.18 17:29, Derek Martin wrote:
>> >    When a message is a reply to another message, the mailboxes of the
>> >    authors of the original message (the mailboxes in the "From:"
>> >    field) or mailboxes specified in the "Reply-To:" field (if it
>> >    exists) MAY appear in the "To:" field of the reply since these
>> >    would normally be the primary recipients of the reply.  If a reply
>> >    is sent to a message that has destination fields, it is often
>> >    desirable to send a copy of the reply to all of the recipients of
>> >    the message, in addition to the author.  When such a reply is
>> >    formed, addresses in the "To:" and "Cc:" fields of the original
>> >    message MAY appear in the "Cc:" field of the reply, since these are
>> >    normally secondary recipients of the reply.
>> > 
>> > It recomments Mutt's current behavior, for precisely the reasons I
>> > gave in support of it.  The person who opened the ticket stated that
>> > the expected behavior is for the recipients in the To: field to be
>> > preserved, but the RFC clearly states otherwise.
>> 
>> It clearly states that it "MAY" be otherwise. 
>
> Yes, I did not think I needed to say this explicity, but it also
> explains why:  Because that usage is the one that corresponds to the
> stated purpose of those fields.  As such it is the obvious, and should
> be preferred, way to use them on replies.  Using the fields the way
> they are intended to be used, to me, adheres to the principle of least
> surprise.

Can't what is the least surprising to you be more surprising to somebody
else?

> It certainly has (clearly) always matched my personal
> expectation such that I've never given it a second thought.  But I
> still say it mostly doesn't, and shouldn't, matter in practical use.
>
> [I'd obviously prefer the RFC should say "SHOULD" instead of "MAY" but
> you get what you get when someone else does it for you.]

-- 
Nuno Silva