On Mar 11, Lorin Winchester [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > This is semi-off-topic, but it somewhat relates to Mutt and Mailman. I'm on > another mailing list that was recently switched from Majordomo to Mailman. > Many times when users try to reply privately to a poster they end up posting > to the list. This causes many complaints about Mailman being a poor piece > of software. > > I (and others on the list using Mutt) have never noticed this "bug" that the > (l)users speak of, since Mutt handles mailing lists VERY well. The
More specifically, mutt routes around munging of reply-to and other headers as much as is possible. > complaints come from those using LookOut!, AOL, and other Windoze MUAs. The > list administrator says that this is just Mailman's standard behavior and it > can't be changed. I'm almost 100% sure that this can be easily changed. I don't know if it can be changed or not in mailman. I think all of the mailman lists I'm on do provide a reply-to header. Othat attributes that software has would make it not surprise me if you indeed can't change that. You'd probably find something if you searched the web a little. > So is this a case of users not knowing how to properly configure/use their > MTAs, or is it a case of the list administrator not knowing how to properly > setup the list? I posted this here since this list runs Mailman and I've > heard no comments here about this. There also seems to be a good number of > knowledgeable people here. These lists are majordomo, not mailman.
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