Subject: mutt "mail-followup-to" question (was: Re: OT: mysql front
end?)
Date: Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:59:19PM -0500
In reply to:Matthew Garman
Quoting Matthew Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 04:46:01PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Cc: Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Your Cc: address is incorrect.
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > ...
> >
> > Remove it or fix it.
>
> Well, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both my 'From:' and
> 'Reply-to:' headers are set to that address. The only header that is
> incorrect is 'Mail-followup-to:'. I'm using mutt, and I checked my
> ~/.muttrc and /etc/Muttrc, and neither of them have any options set (that
> I can find :) that would make that header get addeded to my emails.
>
> The /etc/Muttrc file does have a "set followup-to" line, but it's
> commented out.
>
> So, what I would like, but do not know how to do is the following: either
> remove it all together, or have it set to the address of the mailing list
> to which I'm posting (debian-user@lists.debian.org) in this case.
See below.
>
> Actually, what I would really like is for people to know that I'm
> subscribed to a mailing list, so they know that they don't have to Cc: my
> actual email address anyway. But I want this to be "automatic" in that I
> don't have to explicitly say, "I'm subscribed to this list" in every
> email.
As your mail is sent to the list I simply use 'L' in mutt to reply to
the list. I very seldom, if ever, set the Cc myself. It seems that
your attempt to let everyone know you are subscribed has caused the
Mail-followup to be added to the CC when I do the List reply.
You had me thinking I had done something in my setup to cause this.
So, as usual in cases like this, I RTFM.
-quote on-
Mutt Manual
4.8. Handling Mailing Lists
Mutt also supports the Mail-Followup-To header. When you send a
message to a list of recipients which includes one or several
subscribed mailing lists, and if the ``$followup_to'' option is set,
mutt will generate a Mail-Followup-To header which contains all the
recipients to whom you send this message, but not your address. This
indicates that group-replies or list-replies (also known as
``followups'') to this message should only be sent to the original
recipients of the message, and not separately to you - you'll receive
your copy through one of the mailing lists you are subscribed to.
__quote off--
Of course this means that your lists have to be entered into your
muttrc.
Using mutt, thats good. Look at your post of this message, and hit the
h (header key)
This is your header, as I see it
In-reply-to: <"from wtopa"@dmcom.net>
To: Debian User's List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Reply-to: Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mail-followup-to: Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Debian User's List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Thats why, when I reply to the list
Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gets put into the Cc: field
I have removed it, in this post, so as not to get a bounce, again.
In my .muttrc I just have
set followup_to As per the manual
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