John Andersen wrote:
How does one do that on a Single email account that is used for a variety of things? (Not Just this list).
You can't set a default "reply to header" for that account and have everything you send pointed back to the list.
Most email packages only allow one permanent reply-to-address setting. In the absence of that, replies tend to go to sender, or return-path.
What package do you use that lets you configure this reply to specifically for each list you belong to.
**and yes, I did send this to you as well as the list. (At my peril I suspect ;-)
--- No peril from me... when a mail is coming to me, it actually 'beeps at me' to let me know I got a personally addressed message. I checked my Inbox as soon as I was done writing another email. If you had sent it to the list, I might have seen it, but it wouldn't have beeped to let me know I had new personally addressed email. As for your answer (having never done it myself, I just know the feature exists!... so this took a while to compose as I had to research a bit). It would depend on what email program you use, and I would have to try to configure it to be certain. However, with mozilla Tbird there is a 'virtual-identity' extension that sets my 'from' address based on who I am sending the email to. There is a check-box in the "Message Compose Features" section to "set Virtual Identity as "Reply-To address". How it works -- when I compose an email and type in an name, virtual Identity will automatically store what to put in the 'From' (or the 'Reply-To') field based on who you are addressing it to. If you are replying to someone it is easiest, as it will use who/whatever the email was addressed to and store it with the outgoing email addr in it's database -- then anytime you compose an email to that person, it will auto-fill in the defaults you want (you can choose various things that, you, specifically, wouldn't need (like underlying accounts, base identities, smtp server used, character encoding, message format, return receipt status, 'FCC' status, encryption status, and what signature to append. Seem like that extension would work (if it is still supported -- though there is probably more than one if this exact one isn't compat w/latest Tbird). The 'sub-feature' of the extension that is applicable is called "Smart Replies" -- where it will generate info based on who you are replying to. -------------- Now there was also an extension, but I don't seem to remember it's name now (I don't have it installed anymore as the virtual identities was far more flexible), but it allowed you to associate an identity with a folder. (in this case, I'm thinking of an "identity", as being "you" with "special attributes" (like who to set reply-to: to). It was the 1st extension I used for list mail, since virtually all the lists I subscribe to go into separate folders when the messages come in. But since it only set messages based on folder, it wouldn't remember who was from a list, so if you weren't sending a list-based mail, with it's own folder, it wouldn't know who to put in the 'from field'. But in this case, if that extension is still around, it might be the best way to go if you filter your opensuse messages into a separate folder. Then anytime you start to compose a message when you are reading that folder, it would default to putting in the the info specific for that folder. (But you might be able to see, how having the extension 'virtual identities' would be more useful if you send email to people "off the list"...)... Basically -- it is something that is most easily set by your email client. Now, if that wasn't available, and it was important, to do I'd probably write a mail-relay script in perl (my incoming filter is written in perl, but there are canned solutions solutions that are easier to use (procmail) that weren't around when I first wrote my mail script (in perl4, BTW, so a while ago). But I'd have it listen on some internal port on my machine (127.0.0.1), and configure Tbird to send outgoing email to the outgoing perl-filter script. Then in it, it can scan for who you are sending it to (or what list), and add a reply field to the message and then pass it on to sendmail or whatever you use to send out email. ---- Searching a bit on the net... here's another client (http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/templates.html) that allows you to setup template of for reply-to based or at 1. At the account level where a default set of new, reply and forwarded message templates may be defined. ... 2. At the folder level where a set of new, reply and forward message templates may be assigned to a particular folder. ... 3. At the address book level where a set of new, reply and forward message templates may be assigned to a particular address book group or a single address book entry. ------ Someone else had your question (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.support.thunderbird/i7jcBvF8...) --- And one option that stood out: This would be easy with *Pine*. Just put reply-to in the list of headers to display or edit, the default being empty. I'm pretty sure pine is available for opensuse... Any answer I come up with will vary by the client and I'd have to research how to do it in a specific client -- with a fall-back position of doing it myself in a scripting language (ruby, python, perl, whatever....)... I hope that gives you an idea of what to look for. googlefu: "set Reply-To based on addressee in Thunderbird" -linda -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org