From: Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rmail: 'reply' vs 'reply-all'?
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:17:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vaspejvr.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poizyz4m.fsf@secondfloor.xyz> (message from Christopher Pinon on Fri, 03 Feb 2017 18:15:21 +0100)
Christopher Pinon <cjpinon@secondfloor.xyz> writes:
...
> During my private tests, I used three other email addresses that I have:
> myusername AT domain1, myusername AT domain2, and myusername AT
> domain3. These are different addresses (because different domains), but
> 'myusername' is the same in each case. What I found is that 'r' in Rmail
> did not add these addresses to "CC" or "To", which is what puzzled me.
>
> As soon as I used an address of the form anotherusername AT domain in
> "CC" or "To", 'r' in Rmail behaved as expected (i.e., as according to
> the manual) and added it to "CC" or "To".
>
> In sum, 'r' in Rmail appears to treat the addresses myusername AT
> domain1, myusername AT domain2, and myusername AT domain3 as the same
> address, which is a bit unfortunate. In practice, it's not likely to be
> a significant issue (it was an artifact of my private tests), but it
> nevertheless seems a little odd for 'r' in Rmail to treat such addresses
> as the same.
This is an obscure case. On the other hand, it should work. So, this
looks like a bug to me.
I have never encountered this problem in practice when using Rmail though.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-04 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-01 12:05 Rmail: 'reply' vs 'reply-all'? Christopher Pinon
2017-02-01 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-01 19:00 ` Christopher Pinon
2017-02-02 17:25 ` Christopher Pinon
2017-02-03 17:15 ` Christopher Pinon
2017-02-04 21:17 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2017-02-06 16:48 ` Christopher Pinon
2017-02-07 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-07 19:19 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-07 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-07 22:09 ` Christopher Pinon
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