Hello ALUG,
Usually when I'm sending messages to mailing lists, I set the Reply-To header to the mailing list address (as I've done with this message).
How do people's mail clients respond to this? When you draft a reply, does it automatically make to To: main@lists...? Or does it make it CC?
On 28 May 13:04, Richard Lewis wrote:
Hello ALUG,
Usually when I'm sending messages to mailing lists, I set the Reply-To header to the mailing list address (as I've done with this message).
How do people's mail clients respond to this? When you draft a reply, does it automatically make to To: main@lists...? Or does it make it CC?
Well, as Reply-to is set, mine offers me the reply-to address first, if I so no to that it offers me your address. But, because this is a list, I tend to use L which reads the list headers instead... mutt is by far the nicest mail client I've ever used, and does what I expect ;)
Cheers,
Brett Parker wrote:
Well, as Reply-to is set, mine offers me the reply-to address first, if I so no to that it offers me your address. But, because this is a list, I tend to use L which reads the list headers instead... mutt is by far the nicest mail client I've ever used, and does what I expect ;)
See also: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455 "Reply to Mailing list" add-on for Thunderbird.
Richard Lewis wrote:
Hello ALUG,
Usually when I'm sending messages to mailing lists, I set the Reply-To header to the mailing list address (as I've done with this message).
Most of the lists I subscribe to change the Reply To: to be the list address. I note ALUG does not do this.
How do people's mail clients respond to this? When you draft a reply, does it automatically make to To: main@lists...? Or does it make it CC?
Replying to your mail on the list sends to the list.
However, I find that many lists do not set the Reply To: field to the list and so if I do not take care my reply goes instead to the poster of the message I am replying to.
I'm trying the thunderbird "Reply to Mailing List" for this reply to see what happens.
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:12:57PM +0100, nev young wrote:
Usually when I'm sending messages to mailing lists, I set the Reply-To header to the mailing list address (as I've done with this message).
Most of the lists I subscribe to change the Reply To: to be the list address. I note ALUG does not do this.
This is a feature not a bug with the Alug mailing list. I think the canonical answer is : http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Adam
Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:12:57PM +0100, nev young wrote:
Usually when I'm sending messages to mailing lists, I set the Reply-To header to the mailing list address (as I've done with this message).
Most of the lists I subscribe to change the Reply To: to be the list address. I note ALUG does not do this.
This is a feature not a bug with the Alug mailing list. I think the canonical answer is :
I wasn't suggesting it was a bug just making the observation.
ALUG works the same way as freecycle.
On Thu, 28 May 2009 15:41:56 +0100 Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk allegedly wrote:
This is a feature not a bug with the Alug mailing list. I think the canonical answer is : http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
There are arguments both ways:
http://www.blackgate.net/consulting/reply-to_munging_useful.html
and
http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful/
And to answer the original point, it varies by client. My preferred client (claws) does the following:
"Reply" - reply to list "All" - reply to list, cc sender "Sender" - reply to sender
Mick
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On Thu, 28 May 2009, Richard Lewis wrote:
Usually when I'm sending messages to mailing lists, I set the Reply-To header to the mailing list address (as I've done with this message).
How do people's mail clients respond to this? When you draft a reply, does it automatically make to To: main@lists...? Or does it make it CC?
Mine (Alpine 2.00) asks me a series of questions to work out what I want to do, the possible outcomes being the two you suggest, or just replying to you without involving main@lists. But I suspect there's some configuration option that could get it to make up its own mind without asking me.
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