On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:44:41PM -0600, Bill Stewart wrote: >On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:09 PM Christopher Faylor wrote: >>With mailman, if you click on a message in the archives and then click >>on the email address at the top, your mail client of choice will be >>opened with correct "In-Reply-To" set. If you want to reply to the >>list then replace the "To" with the email address of the mailing list. >>You can also download the mailbox-formatted archive, read it with a >>client like "mutt" and reply that way. > >So it is _possible_, but not exactly user-friendly (you're presuming >that end-users even understand these instructions). What if a user is >limited to a web-based mail client, for example, and has no way to >access said options? (I think it goes without saying that a "use a >better mail client" response is not feasible, at least for some users, >in addition to possibly sounding a bit elitist.)
So, there's a potential email client out there which doesn't allow you to change the To address. Sounds pretty limiting but I guess it's not too surprising. Anyway, I was just instructing in how this could be done, in case someone who knew what they were doing was interested. I wasn't saying "WRONG! Mailman is awesome as a message board!" -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
