lists vs. subscribe (was Re: mutt to follow discussions.)

[Gregory Seidman <gss+mutt@cs.brown.edu>]

Note that I have crossposted this to the mutt-users mailing list.

On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
} On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 09:33:40AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
} > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 12:09:14PM +0530, Tirthankar C. Patnaik wrote:
} > >     How do I configure mutt to follow up toa thread on this list? I don't
} > >     wanna change the To: address each time i'd like to post to a thread.
} > 
} > subscribe <email address> <...>
} > in ~/.muttrc, where email address is the address of the mailing list.
} > Example:
} > 
} > subscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-boot@lists.debian.org
} 
} How does "subscribe" differ from "lists"?

I'm trying to figure this out myself. In particular, it looks like there
might be a bug in either the documentation or (I hope) mutt 1.4. The
documentation says that the ~l pattern matches messages to known lists
(anything matched in a subscribe or lists config command), but it actually
only matches subscribed lists (ignoring anything in a lists config
command).

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the distinction
between "known" (lists command) and subscribed (subscribe command) has to
do with what the Mail-Followup-To header contains when followup_to is true.
If you are subscribed, it contains the list address; if not, it contains
your address. Is this correct, or is there more to it?

} Bill Moseley
} moseley@hank.org
--Greg