Re: [SLE] [OT] Reply-To (Was: Top-posting is so Microsoftish)

The 02.10.15 at 07:15, Graham Murray wrote:

Kevin McLauchlan writes:

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PS: As somebody mentioned, if I hit "Reply" in KMail, I would have your address only, in the "To:" field. If I hit "Reply to all", then I get your address, followed by the list address. This Linux-only mailer gives what you would call wrong behaviour by default. Or, at least it does when responding to certain types of mail-list handlers. With some others, when I hit "Reply", I'm replying to the list.

That latter behaviour is what gnus would call "Broken Reply To". Put very briefly the problem with setting Reply-To: to point to a mailing list is that it makes it much harder to respond privately to a poster. Whereas if Reply-To does not point to the list, it is simple to reply to either the list or the individual poster.

As Ben Rosenberg sugested in this thread two days ago, if you are using procmail to sort and/or distribute mail, this recipe inserts the Reply-To header: :0f * ^X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e | formail -bfi "Reply-To:suse-linux-e@suse.com" I'm now using it, with any mailer. Now pine by default mails to the list, but asks whether I preffer to reply to the "From:" header or to all. For me, problem solved :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson