Hi, On 2021-08-06 4:24 p.m., Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 12:25:52PM -0400, Polyna-Maude > Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> Actually, the message you sent would have been sent only to yourself in >> the reply if I wouldn't have took the time to add the mailing list as CC. > > OK, let's explore why. > > According to your User-Agent header, you are using the MUA Thunderbird. > > According to the description you just wrote about the behaviour of > replying, it would NOT have replied to the list, but directly to Tomas. > > That's because you have hit Thunderbird's "Reply" button (or keyboard > shortcut, or menu entry), which is defined as "reply to sender". > > Thunderbird has a separate "reply to list" function. By default, you can > see it in the list of actions if you right-click a list mail, or if you > hit the keys CTRL + Shift + L. I *think* the "Reply all" button that > normally appears turns into a "reply list" button, when the mail in > question is a list message. > The "reply list" button was exactly in my face. Just discovered it's existence.
I'll now use this one. > You need to be using the separate "reply to list" function to send a > reply to the correct place. > > In my opinion, it's awkward that there's a separate function and you > have to remember to use it in some circumstances but not others. That's > the default behaviour in my chosen MUA too (neomutt). However, I > reconfigured neomutt so I had a single button to hit that always does > the right thing. Perhaps, Thunderbird can be similarly configured to be > more convenient in this regard. I don't know. > > There's one more caveat worth mentioning here, and it's to do with mail > server stuff, rather than client. In some circumstances, such as when I need to take some time to configure my own mail server as I'm now using one rented on shared hosting. I need a week-end off to do so. Been planning this for the last month. But I'll probably use something like procmail and fetchmail, or another list of similar tools. I have one message where user on the list gave me pretty good hints on how to get something functional. But this take time to setup. > somebody hits "reply all" or CCs you on a mail you get via a list > anyway, you can get two copies of the mail. Since only one copy came via > the list, only one copy has the List-* headers, and so Thunderbird's > "reply to list" function will only work for the list copy. Worse, some > mail server back-ends (for example Gmail, Exchange) de-duplicated copies > of mail. Therefore, the one copy you might have (despite having been > sent two) may not be the list copy either. If that affects you, all I > can suggest is looking for a better mail provider. But, we can all help > each other by not CCing people when replying to them on-list. Which is > why I have that in my mail signature. > > Thanks -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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