On 31/10/16 09:57, Terry Coles wrote:
On Sunday, 30 October 2016 17:58:09 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
That sounds like you're clicking the wrong "reply" button in your mail
user agent. Outside of the list, if Patrick emails you, CC me, don't
you have to be careful when you reply to choose between it going just to
Patrick or me too? A choice is also to be made when replying and one of
the addresses is the list. Your MUA might note the List-* headers and
offer list-specific options, but in general it's the same issue: to whom
do I want to reply.
Reading the thread that you pointed at below, I recall that I customised my
toolbar to include the Actions 'Reply To All', 'Reply To Author' and 'Reply To
Mailing List'. Unfortunately, the last time I upgraded those customisation's
seem to have been cleared, so all I had left was the default 'Reply'....
I've fixed it (again) now.
If the sender simply puts the mailman address in the To Address field
and nothing anywhere else, then the list works fine.
The list works fine? You mean you get a single copy from the list. Or
Yes.
something specific to replying to the email you receive from the list?
No.
Is it still Thunderbox you're using?
No. Kontact (KMail). Always has been since around 2002.
Ralph, I have a vague recollection that this was changed some years
ago to prevent another problem, but I can't remember what it was.
Start reading at
https://www.mail-archive.com/dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk/msg05999.html and
work your way down the thread in the footer. :-)
Yes. I remember now. My issue then, as now, is that I never had to do
anything but hit 'Reply' for years and the message would be sent to the List.
Then something started sowing confusion (for me at least). I don't know what
changed; KMail, or the list, but it still catches me out regularly,
particulary because the KDE developers keep breaking backwards compatibility
and settings that have worked for years suddenly disappear ;-(
I keep threatening to abandon KDE, but the trouble is that I like more than I
hate ;-)
I use Thunderbird and that has a reply to list option. If I just click
reply (like I just did with this reply then I realised what I had done)
it will just go to the poster, in this case Terry
Tim
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