On 2017-04-26 09:20, cyg Simple wrote: > On 4/25/2017 9:51 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2017-04-25 19:12, Brian Inglis wrote: >>> On 2017-04-25 03:16, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>>> From: Yves Chevallier >>>>>> How can I use this mailing list to answer a mail that I >>>>>> only find from this link >>>>>> https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-04/msg00156.html? >>>>> Send a plain-text e-mail to cygwin-get.207...@cygwin.com. No >>>>> need to add a subject or body. It will send you the message, >>>>> and you can reply to that. >>>> Whoa. This should be documented somewhere. >>>> Looks like the 207653 comes from the Return-Path header when >>>> you view the raw message content. >>> It's documented in all subscription confirmation and acknowledgement >>> emails from the mailing list manager, unless you subscribed before >>> ezmlm was used, and you can get it by sending a blank plain text >>> email to <list>-h...@cygwin.com e.g. mailto:cygwin-h...@cygwin.com. >> [last line scrambled by email address obscurer] >> email to <list>-help at cygwin dot com e.g. cygwin-help at cygwin dot com > I was going to state the same yesterday but I gave it a try first. > The resulting mail doesn't explain the use of cygwin-get.MSGID that I > saw. It mostly refers to the FAQ on cygwin.com.
Other lists' help is more informative - single message retrieval based on the ml msg# is implied, but the source of that number is not obvious: "To get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail: <cygwin-get.123_...@cygwin.com> To get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456 , mail: <cygwin-index.123_...@cygwin.com> They are always returned as sets of 100, max 2000 per request, so you'll actually get 100-499. To receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345, send an empty message to: <cygwin-thread.12...@cygwin.com>" should be added to the cygwin ml help, as should the source of the msg# as being the number in the raw message Return-path: header, and -help should be a command, and added to the ml help. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
