Hi Bret. On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Bret Busby wrote:
On 18/06/2014, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:28:45 +0800 Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:Now, if only the list defaulted to "Reply To List", it would be good, and, make replying to the list, easier...As far as I know, it does. As far as I know, everyone who replies to my stuff on this list goes to the list. As far as I know, every one of my replies to this list goes to the list. Perhaps you have coded a "Reply to" in your email client.I have just checked the full headers, using both the MTA formerly known as PINE, and, gmail (I have my gmail account, subscribed, and, my normal email address, subscribed, and, I use alpine for incoming email, for the latter, due to the power of PINE), and both show no presence of a Reply-To value having been set. In both instances, in composing a reply to your message, the replies default to replying to you only; a user needs to use the Reply To All option, and then (if the user is inclined, and, I generally do it, to minimise wastage of bandwidth and duplication of messages for recipients) deleting the email address of the poster of the message to which the reply is being composed (and deleting any other circulated email addresses shown in the message header), and, cutting (from the CC field), and pasting, the list address, to the To address for thew message.
i am familiar with that kind of hamster-work. done it myself for more than a decade. kind of a pita. have you looked at alpine's roles? Main menu > Setup > Roles. i have, just now, created one of these roles, for alpine to apply when i reply to messages located in the mailfolder where i file messages received from debian-user. it fills in the "To:" header automatically and correctly, to debian-user, among other things. below are the relevant non-default settings i chose for the role. first, here are the triggering conditions: ] == CURRENT FOLDER CONDITIONS BEGIN HERE == ] Current Folder Type = ] Set Choose One ] --- -------------------- ] ( ) Any ] ( ) News ] ( ) Email ] (*) Specific (Enter Incoming Nicknames or use ^T) ] Folder List = /full/path/to/debian/user/mailfolder ] == CURRENT MESSAGE CONDITIONS BEGIN HERE == ] To pattern = <No Value Set> ] [...] ] List-Id pattern = debian-user.lists.debian.org ] Add Extra Headers ] [...] to set a List-Id pattern, i had to add it using the "Add Extra Headers" option. (since the only messages i save in the specified folder already fit the pattern, it is in fact redundant.) the settings above make alpine consider applying the following template to my own outgoing messages, when i'm in the designated mailfolder and the currently viewed message was sent to the debian-user listserv. the settings below define the template applied to my outgoing messages: ] == ACTIONS BEGIN HERE == ] Initialize settings using role : <No Value Set> ] Set From = davidson@ling.ohio-state.edu ] Set Reply-To = debian-user@lists.debian.org ] [...] ] Set Other Hdrs = To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ] [...] it's the last setting that does the work you've been looking for, if i understand you correctly. hope this helps. -wes