Re: ccing

[Matthias Czapla <dermatsch@gmx.de>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:53:19AM -0700, David Haughton wrote:
> > Incoming from Cheryl Homiak:
> > > I agree that it's irritating to get duplicate messages. 
> > However, it's 
> > > often not that the person deliberately did a cc. At least 
> > in Pine, I 
> > > often
> > 
> > The usual reply to this is submit a bug report.  If it came 
> > from a list, the reply should go to the list.  If you want to 
> > reply to the author, that should take manual intervention.  
> > In the meantime, switch to something that does it right, mutt for one.
> 
> Most email clients will act this way (i.e. Thunderbird, Pine, Outlook*)
> because the person that sent the email to the list is in the "From" field
> and I don't see the "Reply-To" field being set by the listserv. Some
> listservs will also rewrite the "From" so that even clients that ignore the
> "Reply-To" will reply to the list. It will then appear something like "From:
> debain-users@lists.debian.org on behalf of so-and-so". How does mutt know to
> reply to the email address in the "To" field and not the "From" field
> without user intervention?

You tell it what lists you're subscribed to and use the list-reply
function. It searches To: and Cc: for any configured mailing list
address and uses this for To:.

Regards
Matthias