This one time, at band camp, David T-G wrote: > > So, since lists are so easy to recognize, have a script that generates > mailing list names from your directories and put something like
Mailing lists aren't easy to recognize, at least when they don't put in a header, but you're forgetting that this will only come up if the user hits the list-reply key, thereby TELLING mutt that the email was from a list. That simplifies matters immensely. Does that mean you can always tell what the list address is? No, of course not. You check for header lines with "post" in them, and pull addresses. If there aren't any, you pop up the "From:" as a default, and let the user userride it like any other prompted option. This will miss a lot of lists. So only require the user to hint those in the config file, not ALL of them. Why do people assume any solution that doesn't work 100% of the time is a bad solution? Most solutions fit the most common case and try not to make any irrevocable choices in the others.
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