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From: Lee Hoffman <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Reply To in messages
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:16:35 -0500
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bob gillis wrote:
>Anita Please take your e-mail address out of the Reply To in your Outlook
>accounts. Here is what Lee Hoffman said about OE some years ago. It may
>also work in Outlook:
>
>In OE, select Tools=>Accountsfrom the Main Menu,
> - In the Internet Accounts window, click on the Mail tab,
> - Highlight the desired account and click on the [Properties] button
> - In the General tab of the Properties window, clear the Reply
> Address field,
> - Close the window by clicking on the [OK] button
> - Click on the [Close] button to close the Internet Account window.

What Bob alludes to here is that the heading "Reply To:" is mostly
unnecessary for most users. The purpose of the "Reply To" header is to
allow someone to send a message from one address (e.g., normal work
address) expecting to receive mail at another address (e.g., some other
address while on a trip). For most users, there is very little reason for
this because the intent to insure that all messages are sent to the list to
let all on the list to benefit from the conversation and mail to a list can
only be sent by subscribers to the list.

Hope this helps -

Lee Hoffman/KY
TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)


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