On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0700, Scott wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other > > mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). > > > > I'm a Thunderbird user and I only have this problem on a few lists. The > Debian lists are among those. > > All the lists running on GNU Mailman (I'm surprised Debian doesn't use > this, GNU-lovers that they are) include a "Reply-To": header with the > mailing list address. So in Thunderbird when you simply "reply" it goes > to the list. If you "Reply to All" it goes to the list and anyone else > in the from/to/cc headers. > > On the Debian lists, it's the exact opposite.
Last time this was extensively discussed, someone ran a poll of what preferences people had in the matter. I initially was in favour of what the other lists did, but after hearing the arguments I changed my vote. Not that the poll/vote would have any effect; the people in charge of Debian policy have made the technically correct decision; the reasons for it are explained elsewhere; someone has already posted a link to the reasons on the current thread. Roughly speaking, the way debian does it allows the sender to use Reply-to himself in case he, for example, is temporarily mailing his messge from a site he dies not usually use. That way, anyone repl;ying to sender will get it properly routed to the sender's usual email address. Replacing the Reply-to with the list address would make it impossible to reply to the sender properly. The way it's done on Debian lists is in accord with the relevant standards; the other lists are not. The relevant standards also specify that mailers should be able to handle reply-to-list as well as reply-to-sender. So it is definitely thunderbird that is at fault, not Debian. Go log a bug against mozilla thunderbird on the mozilla site. The more people complaining the more likely something will eventually done about it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
