On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> The logic for the mail-followup-to header is a little more
> complicated, and involves both subscribed and known lists.
>
> First of all, mutt will only generate a mail-followup-to header if
> (1) the $followup_to option is set,
Which is the default.
> and (2) the message goes to a
> *known* list. The header will then point to *all* recipients of the
> message (i.e., all the lists and anyone who may be CCed).
>
> Your own address will be added to the mail-followup-to header if you
> are not subscribed to any of the lists to which you direct
> responses.
Or in other words, if you want replies sent only to the list, then use
"subscribe", but if you want your own address added to the
Mail-Followup-To header (so you receive a direct copy) then use "lists".
I prefer "lists" because the mail gets to me sooner.
I wonder what percent of mail clients use Mail-Followup-To and then what
percent of users of those clients use the "List" reply function.
And replying to this message, I've got debian-user as a "lists", but not
mutt-users, thus To: debian-user and Cc: mutt-users. If mutt was a
"lists" or subscribed then they would both be on the To: line.
> In pseudo-code:
>
> if ((message goes to known list) && (we haven't obtained \
> mail_followup_to from user or from message we reply to))) {
>
> copy all recipients to mail-followup-to;
>
> remove self from mail-followup-to;
>
> if (!(mail-followup-to points to subscribed list)) {
> add self to mail-followup-to;
> }
> }
>
> Hope that helps,
Yes, very much. Thanks,
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