ActionMailer Reply-To Header

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I am trying to include the persons name as well as email in the reply- to field of the email header. In the process, I'm seeing some weird behavior:

You can set the from address: @from = "Persons Name <persons email>"

But if you use the same convention for reply-to: @headers['Reply-To'] = "Persons Name <persons email>"

At some point the header gets parsed and the name is removed.

I've found that you can do : @headers['Reply-To'] = "'Persons Name' <persons email>"

But I'm not sure that the single quotes are up to standard in the email header.

Thanks for the help! Tom

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"'Persons Name' <persons email>" is valid. Was that not working for you?

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I believe it will work, but it isn't consistent. I was hoping someone understood how ActionMailer is parsing those fields...

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Well, this has come back to bite me. Apparently, not all mail clients work with that format.

I guess the bottom line is how do you set the reply-to address?

@headers["Reply-To"] = "Persons Name <persons email>"

Will work but it will remove the person's name. Shouldn't it get parsed the same as:

@from = "Persons Name <persons email>"

Thanks, Tom