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Re: Wrong address on reply (on debian maillist)



on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:02:34PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins (jcollins@asgardsrealm.net) wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 05:37:22PM +0100, iain d broadfoot wrote:
> > * David Sudjiman (davidsudjiman@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm new on debian lists and I'm using pine455.
> > > 
> > > When I replied from debian-user@lists.debian.org, why does my pine
> > > always reply to sender and not to debian-user@lists.debian.org?
> > > Tricks?
> > 
> > because the email was sent From: the sender, not from the list.
> > 
> > there may be an option to reply to the list, but i don't know pine
> > ATALL. :D
> > 
> > there _should_ be a 'reply to all' function available though.
> 
> If you do have to resort to a "reply to all" function, you'll probably
> want to do at least 2 things:
> 
>    1) make sure you remove the original sender's e-mail from the
>    recipient addresses.  Since most subscribers to the list don't
>    need/want a second copy of most messages.
> 
>    2) file a wishlist bug with pine's author(s) for proper mail list
>    support, aka "reply to list"

3)  Switch to mutt.  A free software, sane, mailer.  With Pine
compatibility keybindings, if you want them.

Peace.

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