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Re: What happended with the list?



On 2018-05-16 06:21 +0000, Matt Owen wrote:
[...]
> 
> Be thankful you are not on Outlook - It totally ignores the List- mail
> headers; I have to remember to 'Reply-all' and then remove the
> originators email from the To: line.
> 
[...]
> -Matt/Jaruzel



On 2018-05-16 07:37 +0100, SP wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 02:15:24AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote:
> 
> >SP <sp@orbitalfox.eu> put forth the proposition:
>
> >>I just hit `g` for reply to all. The list get's copied. It shows who
> >>I'm addressing but the conversation is added to list too.
> 
> >If you do that then you also send a message directly to the person in
> >the replied to message as well as the list. Like you did here:
> 
> 
> I know, that's what I said. It is intentional. The recipient can then
> know that they have been mentioned in the list, rather than receiving
> an email from the list that could be an irrelevant copy. Modern lists
> notice this and they don't send a second copy.

Certain server softwares also notice this, take offense and do not send
the second copy (often the list copy), so you only get one copy *and*
it does not have List-* headers. Microsoft Exchange and Gmail are two
such servers.


-- 
Nuno Silva


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