* Matthias LOITSCH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010912 14:41]:
> i just did not understand the mail-follow-up function...
> and i dont see the connection with the 'subscribe ...' command.
>
> what is the difference between : 'subscribe ...' and 'lists ...' ??
Mail-Followup-To is a header that helps it so that people subscribed to
mailing lists and people not subscribed to mailing lists can get
appropriate replies sent to appropriate places.
Here's the way it works, in the form of a couple of user examples:
I'm subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I post a message there. Since
I've told mutt 'subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]' it knows that I'm
subscribed to that list and generates the following header:
Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This makes it so that people with compatible mailers can jsut hit
"reply" and the right thing will happen: the reply goes to the list.
Since I'm subscribed, I don't need to be CC'ed -- that would result in a
duplicate email.
Now another case: I'm not subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I want to
ask a question there. I post a message, and since I've told mutt 'lists
[EMAIL PROTECTED]' it knows that this is a list to which I am not
subscribed. It generates the following header:
Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So that when people with compatible mailers hit reply, their mailer CCs
me and I get a copy in addition to the one sent to the list.
Third case (less interesting). I send a message to my friend bob, whose
address is listed in neither the 'lists' statment nor the 'subscribe'
statement. Mutt generates no extra header; the message is sent as-is,
without a Mail-Followup-To header.
I hope these examples clear up the issue for you.
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