Re: Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
On Thursday 20 April 2006 07:31, Matthias Julius wrote: > Another aspect is that there is no convenient way to send a private > reply to the sender when he had set Reply-To to the list. You then > can only do this by manually copy/paste of the From address. Right, of course. If someone sets Reply-To to the list, they don't want a private reply... > The worst is when the list manager software automaticalle sets > Reply-To to the list address. I wish this wasn't the default on so many mailing list managers... -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber pgpgbheFfXoAV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
On 2006-04-20, Matthias Julius penned: > > Another aspect is that there is no convenient way to send a private > reply to the sender when he had set Reply-To to the list. You then > can only do this by manually copy/paste of the From address. Well, yes, that's exactly why some of us want to do that =) -- monique Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2006-04-19, Wayne Topa penned: >>> >> >> folder-hook debian-user my_hdr Reply-To: >> 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > > It must be considered harmful by somebody: > > http://gmane.org/faq.php > > [quote] > But I did use a valid email address. > Perhaps you did in your From, but your Reply-To address pointed to the > mailing list. Don't do that. > [/quote] > > Other than that (and I'm not sure why they don't like it), it sounds > like a reasonable approach to me. There is a distinction between a reply (goes to the sender) and a followup (goes to the list). Gnus for example supports both concepts (don't know about other user agents). Now if somebody wants to send a (private) reply to the sender and the sender had set Reply-To to the list the mail goes to the list instead. This might be not a good thing. Another aspect is that there is no convenient way to send a private reply to the sender when he had set Reply-To to the list. You then can only do this by manually copy/paste of the From address. The worst is when the list manager software automaticalle sets Reply-To to the list address. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
On 2006-04-19, Wayne Topa penned: >> > > folder-hook debian-user my_hdr Reply-To: > 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' It must be considered harmful by somebody: http://gmane.org/faq.php [quote] But I did use a valid email address. Perhaps you did in your From, but your Reply-To address pointed to the mailing list. Don't do that. [/quote] Other than that (and I'm not sure why they don't like it), it sounds like a reasonable approach to me. -- monique Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
Matthew R. Dempsky([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:49:18PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Magnus Therning([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Cool, never heard of that one before. Now I only need to figure out how > > > to get muttng to put it in mails. > > > > > > > folder-hook debian-user my_hdr Reply-To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > > Are you recommending this because muttng broke mutt's excellent > Mail-Followup-To support, or just because you think it's a > quicker/better fix to the problem? No, just because I have had it setup that for years wt -- "As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500 programs; a process that traditionally requires some debugging. -- USA Today, referring to the IRS switchover to a new computer system. ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:49:18PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Magnus Therning([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Cool, never heard of that one before. Now I only need to figure out how > > to get muttng to put it in mails. > > > > folder-hook debian-user my_hdr Reply-To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Are you recommending this because muttng broke mutt's excellent Mail-Followup-To support, or just because you think it's a quicker/better fix to the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
Magnus Therning([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:21:04PM +0100, Alec Berryman wrote: > >Magnus Therning on 2006-04-19 23:10:58 +0100: > > > >>AFAICS it would be possible to get mailing list managing software, > >>like mailman, to add a header to email sent to lists indicating the > >>senders preference. Then well-behaved mail clients can use that header > >>as a hint when the user replies to a mailing list. > > > >It's not the mailing list software's job, it's yours. Search for the > >'Mail-Followup-To' header. > > Cool, never heard of that one before. Now I only need to figure out how > to get muttng to put it in mails. > folder-hook debian-user my_hdr Reply-To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' wt -- "Has anyone had problems with the computer accounts?" "Yes, I don't have one." "Okay, you can send mail to one of the tutors ..." -- E. D'Azevedo, Computer Science 372 ___ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail-Followup-To in muttng? [was Re: Thought on receiving two answers...]
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:21:04PM +0100, Alec Berryman wrote: >Magnus Therning on 2006-04-19 23:10:58 +0100: > >>AFAICS it would be possible to get mailing list managing software, >>like mailman, to add a header to email sent to lists indicating the >>senders preference. Then well-behaved mail clients can use that header >>as a hint when the user replies to a mailing list. > >It's not the mailing list software's job, it's yours. Search for the >'Mail-Followup-To' header. Cool, never heard of that one before. Now I only need to figure out how to get muttng to put it in mails. /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. If our ideas of intellectual property are wrong, we must change them, improve them and return them to their original purpose. When intellectual property rules diminish the supply of new ideas, they steal from all of us. -- Andrew Brown, November 19, 2005, The Guardian pgp3tJK3NwiDF.pgp Description: PGP signature
