(optional) If defined, replaces the Reply-To: which the
Lyris Server normally places in outgoing mailing list mail, and replaces it
with the contents of this field. Normally, the Reply-To: is the email address
of the mailing list, so that recipients of mail from a mailing list can reply
back to the mailing list.
It might be useful for an
announcement to change this. For example, an announcement of a meeting might go
out to the mailing list, but you might want replies to the announcement to be
directed at the person scheduling the meeting, so that the person will be
notified if people can or cannot come to the meeting. In such a case, the
person's email address would be the Reply-To:.
Note: the Reply-To: text is generally
an email address, as in:
bob@acme.com
or a combination description/email, as in:
"Meeting
Administrator" <bob@acme.com>
If you enter text in the Reply-To: field which is not a
valid email address, some mail systems may refuse email messages that contain
this text, and you will cause mail problems.
Reply to Author
Lyris can also make the Reply-To be
the original author of the message. If you use this option, both the From: and
the Reply-To will be the email address of the original author, and there will
be no direct mechanism for replying to the list.
The have the Reply-To be the author
name, enter the word "author" as the Reply-To text.
Leave Reply-To Unchanged
Lyris has the option of not
changing the Reply-To status of a contributed message, and distributing it
as-is. In this mode, Lyris will not create, delete or overwrite the Reply-To
field. If the message sent to the list has a Reply-To: field in it, the message
will be distributed with this Reply-To field intact. If the message sent to the
list has no Reply-To field, Lyris will not add one. Without this option set,
Lyris by default replaces whatever is in the contributed message's Reply-To
field with the address of the mailing list, so that it is easy for people to
submit messages to the list.
To enable this option, and leave
untouched the Reply-To field of contributed messages, enter the word "nochange"
as the Reply-To text.