Re: [newbie] Please check your reply-to settings
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:59, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: About 8 times today, I replied to a message and had it go directly to the OP instead of to the list. This happens because people have a reply-to set in their mail clients. This is not necessary if your from and reply-to are the same. It is very annoying because once I realize what happened, I have to go track down the message in my sent, resend it to the listy and then send a note to the OP apologizing and explaingni what happened. Please check and see if you have a reply-to set in your mail client and unset it when posting to the MandrakeSoft mailing lists. The reply-to is meant for if you want a reply to go to an address that is different that the one you are sending the message from. I always set mine to: /dev/null Seems to work like a charm. -- Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:00:01 +1100 8:00am up 10:53, 2 users, load average: 0.19, 0.36, 0.26 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Please check your reply-to settings
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:59, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: About 8 times today, I replied to a message and had it go directly to the OP instead of to the list. This happens because people have a reply-to set in their mail clients. This is not necessary if your from and reply-to are the same. It is very annoying because once I realize what happened, I have to go track down the message in my sent, resend it to the listy and then send a note to the OP apologizing and explaingni what happened. Please check and see if you have a reply-to set in your mail client and unset it when posting to the MandrakeSoft mailing lists. The reply-to is meant for if you want a reply to go to an address that is different that the one you are sending the message from. I always set mine to: /dev/null Seems to work like a charm. Ahem. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) -Ian Kelly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Please check your reply-to settings
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 08:11, Ian Kelly wrote: Seems to work like a charm. Ahem. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) -Ian Kelly Hmmm...I'll look into this next month...(g) -- Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:30:00 +1100 8:30am up 11:23, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.12, 0.15 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- F: When into a room I plunge, I Sometimes find some VIOLET FUNGI. Then I linger, darkly brooding On the poison they're exuding. -- The Roguelet's ABC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Please check your reply-to settings
About 8 times today, I replied to a message and had it go directly to the OP instead of to the list. This happens because people have a reply-to set in their mail clients. This is not necessary if your from and reply-to are the same. It is very annoying because once I realize what happened, I have to go track down the message in my sent, resend it to the listy and then send a note to the OP apologizing and explaingni what happened. Please check and see if you have a reply-to set in your mail client and unset it when posting to the MandrakeSoft mailing lists. The reply-to is meant for if you want a reply to go to an address that is different that the one you are sending the message from. -- Gregory K. Meyer, CPA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
