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Reply to sender - direct add - not maillist

Johan

30 Nov 2003 30 Nov '03

19:34

Hi, I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. On the others the list appears - so I take it my system is OK?? It is frustrating.. I have to change the address. Any pointers please. Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 - still learning

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Pieter Hulshoff

30 Nov 30 Nov

19:44

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On the others the list appears - so I take it my system is OK?? It is frustrating.. I have to change the address.

As far as I know it's a protection against automated vacation messages. You know: the list sends an email to a person on a vacation, who sends an automated reply to the list, causing him to receive another email, causing an automated reply to the list, etc. Just use reply to all, and remove the other recipients. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

John Pettigrew

19:55

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Hi, I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. On the others the list appears - so I take it my system is OK?? It is frustrating.. I have to change the address. Any pointers please. Johan

<sigh> This list is configured correctly (i.e. you click "reply to sender" and, shockingly, you create a reply to the sender of the message). There are various websites around explaining why this is so - or just ponder for a moment how easy it would be to accidentally post a private msg to a list. Just use your "followup"/"reply to list" button, or use "reply to all" and delete the OP's email address. How you set this up depends on your mailer. Most good ones will let you create a mailing list that you can treat like a newsgroup WRT replying and creating new posts. John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!

Jake Pumphrey

19:55

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 19:34, Johan wrote:

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I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. On the others the list appears - so I take it my system is OK?? It is frustrating.. I have to change the address.

Try "reply to mailing list"? Presumably you have seperate folders and filtering if you subsribe to various mailing lists? I can only speak for kmail - right-click / reply to mailing list. Jake

Stan Glasoe

20:49

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 1:55 pm, Jake Pumphrey wrote:

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Try "reply to mailing list"? Presumably you have seperate folders and filtering if you subsribe to

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mailing lists? I can only speak for kmail - right-click / reply to mailing list.

Jake

Or just press "l", the letter L, to reply to list in KMail. Stan

gary

19:59

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Johan wrote:

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I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. On the others the list appears - so I take it my system is OK?? It is frustrating.. I have to change the address. Any pointers please.

Or.... use a MUA that supports the group or list reply. <g> -- Gary

Sean Rima

20:47

gary writes:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Johan wrote:

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I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. On the others the list appears - so I take it my system is OK?? It is frustrating.. I have to change the address. Any pointers please.

Or.... use a MUA that supports the group or list reply. <g>

I cannot recall seeing the original but Cone will ask if tyo reply to a mailing list or to the original sender Sean

gary

21:02

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:47:28PM +0000 or thereabouts, Sean Rima wrote:

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gary writes:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Johan wrote:

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I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list.

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Or.... use a MUA that supports the group or list reply. <g>

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I cannot recall seeing the original but Cone will ask if tyo reply to a mailing list or to the original sender

I looked at Johan's original email headers, but could not find what MUA he was using... Cone looks cool.. Think I will check that out just for fun. Thanks Sean -- Gary

Jake Pumphrey

22:12

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 21:02, gary wrote:

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I looked at Johan's original email headers, but could not find what MUA he was using...

Me too. Wondered about that... Jake

gary

23:47

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:12:27PM +0000 or thereabouts, Jake Pumphrey wrote:

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 21:02, gary wrote:

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I looked at Johan's original email headers, but could not find what MUA he was using...

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Me too. Wondered about that...

Hi Jake, There are a few that do not list what MUA it is in the headers, emacs and TKrat come to mind... -- Gary

Patrick Shanahan

23:56

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* gary [11-30-03 18:48]:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:12:27PM +0000 or thereabouts, Jake Pumphrey wrote:

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 21:02, gary wrote:

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I looked at Johan's original email headers, but could not find what MUA he was using...

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Me too. Wondered about that...

There are a few that do not list what MUA it is in the headers, emacs and TKrat come to mind...

And mutt unless user_agent is set (default). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org

gary

1 Dec 1 Dec

00:06

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:56:56PM -0500 or thereabouts, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* gary [11-30-03 18:48]:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:12:27PM +0000 or thereabouts, Jake Pumphrey wrote:

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 21:02, gary wrote:

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I looked at Johan's original email headers, but could not find what MUA he was using...

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Me too. Wondered about that...

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There are a few that do not list what MUA it is in the headers, emacs and TKrat come to mind...

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And mutt unless user_agent is set (default).

Right Patrick... been using Mutt for so long, I forgot about that.. <g> -- Gary Chaos, panic, pandemonium - my work here is done.

Jake Pumphrey

30 Nov 30 Nov

23:59

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 23:47, gary wrote:

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There are a few that do not list what MUA it is in the headers, emacs and TKrat come to mind...

Ok, fair enough. Jake

Johan

1 Dec 1 Dec

13:58

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On Monday 01 December 2003 00:12, Jake Pumphrey wrote:

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On Sunday 30 November 2003 21:02, gary wrote:

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I looked at Johan's original email headers, but could not find what MUA he was using...

Me too. Wondered about that... Jake

Ok you will have a problem tracking me down... Sometimes I work in XP then again in Mandrake and also Suse In linux I use Kmail and XP Outlook Express. Hope this helps Johan -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning

Sean Rima

30 Nov 30 Nov

22:33

gary writes:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:47:28PM +0000 or thereabouts, Sean Rima wrote:

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gary writes:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Johan wrote:

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I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list.

<snip>

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Or.... use a MUA that supports the group or list reply. <g>

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I cannot recall seeing the original but Cone will ask if tyo reply to a mailing list or to the original sender

I looked at Johan's original email headers, but could not find what MUA he was using... Cone looks cool.. Think I will check that out just for fun.

Thanks Sean

Whilst Sam has it at .56 I think he should have held the number lower, but then I guess there is v2 etc :) Sean

gary

23:46

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:33:07PM +0000 or thereabouts, Sean Rima wrote:

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gary writes:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:47:28PM +0000 or thereabouts, Sean Rima wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Johan wrote:

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I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. <snip> Or.... use a MUA that supports the group or list reply. <g>

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I cannot recall seeing the original but Cone will ask if tyo reply to a mailing list or to the original sender

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Whilst Sam has it at .56 I think he should have held the number lower, but then I guess there is v2 etc :)

I will check it out. Sam usually provides good stuff, and I use some of his work, but not others, like Courier IMAP, He sometimes gets off the protocols, and into hsi own, as with his new SMAP stuff... I am interested in Cone especially with its IMAP(S) functionality.. Will definitely check it out... Use Mutt currently as a text based MUA, and it works okay with IMAP, but not totally 100% on some features.. Should prove interesting... The best IMAP client, IMO, is by far Mulberry.. if you like GUI MUAs. Thanks for your input.. -- Gary

Sean Rima

1 Dec 1 Dec

10:48

gary writes:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:33:07PM +0000 or thereabouts, Sean Rima wrote:

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gary writes:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:47:28PM +0000 or thereabouts, Sean Rima wrote:

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On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:34:46PM +0200 or thereabouts, Johan wrote:

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I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. <snip> Or.... use a MUA that supports the group or list reply. <g>

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I cannot recall seeing the original but Cone will ask if tyo reply to a mailing list or to the original sender

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Whilst Sam has it at .56 I think he should have held the number lower, but then I guess there is v2 etc :)

I will check it out. Sam usually provides good stuff, and I use some of his work, but not others, like Courier IMAP, He sometimes gets off the protocols, and into hsi own, as with his new SMAP stuff... I am interested in Cone especially with its IMAP(S) functionality.. Will definitely check it out... Use Mutt currently as a text based MUA, and it works okay with IMAP, but not totally 100% on some features.. Should prove interesting... The best IMAP client, IMO, is by far Mulberry.. if you like GUI MUAs.

Thanks for your input..

I dislike GUI generally anyway so I tend to stick with Console stuff. I know Sam can be a stickler for RFC and I am wondering if he is not ahead of the game with SMAP Sean

Johan

30 Nov 30 Nov

21:04

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Thanks to all responded Funny the differences between lists Ok I see the reason for this Johan ** On Sunday 30 November 2003 21:34, Johan wrote:

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Hi, I am a member of various lists but on this one if you click reply to sender the direct address appears and not the list. On the others the list appears - so I take it my system is OK?? It is frustrating.. I have to change the address. Any pointers please. Johan

May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux user # 330034 - still learning

-- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning

Carlos E. R.

1 Dec 1 Dec

13:39

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The Sunday 2003-11-30 at 23:04 +0200, Johan wrote:

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Thanks to all responded Funny the differences between lists Ok I see the reason for this Johan **

You forgot to read the confirmation mail when you subscribed: your question is answered right there: Q2. Why do my replies go to the original poster and not the list? A2. We do not "munge" the mail headers by inserting a "Reply-To: suse-linux-e@suse.com" because it makes it more difficult subscribers to handle the mail the way they want to. Your mail client probably has a "reply" function as well as a "reply to all" or "reply to list" one; Please use the latter if you want you message to go to the list and not just to the original poster. Also, please don't complain about this on the list, it has been discussed many, many, many times in the past already. For background information see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html New! Even Sourceforge has turned to the dark side: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=6693&group_id=1 -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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