Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (163 mails)

["Robert Graf-Waczenski" <rgw@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > This list here, however, does not even use a "Sender:" header
> > according to RFC822, which means that a simple hit on
> > "Reply" will reply to the poster personally, not to the list.
> > But the pros and cons of this behavior have been discussed
> > ages ago and to my knowledge most people on this list
> > have agreed upon the current settings.
>
> I didn't say anything about changing this list.  As I said, I
> wanted my
> friend to make her list work the way this one does when a reader
> selects "Reply to Mailing-list".

I got that. I was sort of hijacking your post to add some rant ;-)

> However, what I see when I read the list doesn't quite correspond to
> what you say above.
> I'm reading with KMail 1.9 in KDE 3.5.0a, and  mail from
> *this* list gets
> the same result whether I choose "Reply" or
> "Reply-to-Mailing-List". In
> either case, a reply opens with the _list_ address in the "To:" field.

Interesting. I'm reading with a Windoze Outlook client and when i
click "Reply", Outlook uses your personal address, not the list's
address.

> I suppose that's less functional than having two different
> results from two
> different commands.
> However, as you say, most people on this list happen to like how it
> works now.

Yes, that's what i observed, too. OK, now back to your topic again:

> So, if I wanted my friend's list to set up posts:
>  - to reply to the sender when a reader chooses "Reply"
>
>  - to reply to the list when a reader chooses "Reply to Mailing-list"

Basically, this requires a setup similar to the one that is used by
this list, i.e. have a "List-Post:" header with the list's address
and *no* "Sender:" header or configure the "Sender:" header to be
the poster's address. (Don't know if your friend's mailing list software
supports this.)

> which lines would need to be written to headers of messages that
> are handled by her listserve?

Off-topic rant again: The term "listserv" (and similarly "listerve")
is reserved by L-Soft, the providers of LISTSERV(r) since 1986.
However, i won't tell my boss about it ;-))

If by some chance your friend actually *is* using LISTSERV, i'll
work my heart out to help her achieve what she wants. I'm not
too acquainted with other mailing list products, though.

Robert