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Re: Mailing-list configuration



On Monday 13 June 2016 13:51:46 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Monday 13 June 2016 18:09:23 Nicolas George wrote:
> > Le sextidi 26 prairial, an CCXXIV, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
> > > So tell us how.  You have not done so.  You have said:
> > > -----------------------------
> > > Conforming to that attitude, I have documented my personal
> > > preferences in the headers of the mails I send with the following
> > > Mutt rules:
> > >
> > > send-hook . "unmy_hdr Reply-To:"
> > > send-hook ~Cdebian-user@lists.debian.org my_hdr "Reply-To:
> > > debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > Those are Mutt rules.  So are you saying that no-one should be
> > > reading this mailing list with anything other than Mutt??
> >
> > I am saying that I use Mutt and therefore configured Mutt to set the
> > headers. I am sure you can guess that since I use Mutt, it would
> > have had little effect if I did configure Outlook instead.
> >
> > > Let me rephrase this:  what is wrong in my email headers
> >
> > The lack of reply-to header.
>
> That is because I do not want any replies.  It is correctly configured
> as coming from a mailing list.   Mailing list replies are by their
> very nature meant to go to the mailing list.  Any half way decent mail
> client can be configured to reply to a mailing list when reply is
> clicked.  I am very surprised that Mutt can't do so.
>
> Lisi

But we have to also remember that mutt is very very loooooong in the 
tooth Lisi. I've looked at it but never used it, so I've no knowledge if 
its have any serious TLC in the last decade.
[...]

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