> On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 07:28, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > >>reply gone wrong; a reply to a mailinglist post. for some reason I > >>press 'g' for group reply, instead of just 'r' > >> > >>so mutt asks about a reply to the mailinglist, and yeah, i dont want it > >>there, so I press n, but it CC'ed the darn list as well. > >> > >>fwiw, the mlist in question is both listed under 'lists' and > >>'subscribe' ... > >> > >>any (serious) ideas as to prevent such a meltdown from happening again? > >>thanks.
On a related note, I'd like to suggest the following "intelligent" reply feature. When the default reply key (say 'r') is typed, mutt should automagically know / ask whether to reply to list / all / sender only. It might use some variant of the following algorithm. 1. Ask whether to reply to all. Have a quadoption configuration variable to determine whether group-reply is the default. 2. If the user chooses not to reply to all, and one of the addresses in the original message (either To: or Cc:) is a list address (specified via lists or subscribe), ask whether the reply goes to the sender or the list. Could have a quadopion configuration variable for this as well. 3. Could have a variable to control different handling for mailing list messages and other messages (e.g. I prefer group-reply by default for regular messages, and reply-to-list-only for list messages). If this sounds reasonable and has not already been implemented as a patch, I could give it a shot, but given my lack of familiarity with the codebase, it's likely to take forever. Sorry if this has already been discussed before. Grateful for any feedback, mandar.
