On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 08:09:58PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> >>> If I use "reply-to-all", icedove adds the original sender in the "To:" >>> field and the debian-user address in the "CC:" field. If I send it in >>> this way, will the sender receive two posts? I never received multiple >>> replies to any of my posts, so I think the list software probably doesn't >>> send out multiple copies to the same recipient. Am I correct in assuming >>> this? >> >> No. If you send to two recipeints: the list and a person, the list >> can't un-send your message to the person. You would have been sending >> two. Mutt has a 'list reply' which only sends to the list. I don't >> know about icedove. >> > > Thank you Doug, I just noticed that when I hit reply-to-all, your email did > not appear in the "To:" list, and just the d-u list address appeared. Because Doug has set "Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org" > However, this was not the case with some other messages. What I was > thinking earlier was that if the list sees that the person in the > "To:" or "CC:" field is also subscribed to the list, then it refrains > from sending the message to that person, since they would have > received it "directly". From now on, I shall dutifully delete the > additional address before sending. The list has no control over how you reply. If you send a message to the list AND the poster your SMTP server (either local or at your ISP) will send to messages: one to the list and one to the poster. The list has no control over the first one. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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