Thunderbird doesn't appear to give me that option, but for this mail it
gave me "Reply List" as the top option in a list, where the other two
entries were "Reply All" and "Reply".
There's a certain amount of automation involved with this, and some
mail clients offer user overrides and customisable default choices.
When I post to someone, my message comes from a "from" address, and
that's where replies will go.
Thunderbird offers two columns in it configuration, a "Correspondents"
column and a "From" column, and I noticed with mails on this list they
are not necessarily the same. For example, with my mails on the list,
"Correspondents" showed "Community support for Fedora Users" as a lot of
mails on the list do in both columns, and, "From" showed my name, so
I've removed the "Correspondents" column and replaced it with "From".
I can put in a "reply-to" address, and replies will automatically be
sent to go there, instead. Such as an email to [email protected] may
respond to a query and suggest you follow it up with [email protected]
and set a reply-to address that automatically does that for you.
The recipient of that message can go with the defaults, or override
them, when they reply. Some mail clients will notify them that their
reply is going to a different address, many did not.
Thunderbird sets the "To" line to whatever address it is sending the
mail to. So with your reply it says it is sending the mail to your mail
address you have indicated is potentially not monitored (which is not an
issue) and the list address.
When I post to a mailing list they usually set a "reply-to" address
that points to the list, and that sends replies back to where everyone
expects them to go. They may also add various "list-" addresses in the
header that identifies the message as being list mail, amongst other
things.
I think my mails have that list-id header, but I thought that was
because the list was adding the list-id header to mails, because I'm not
doing that explicitly myself, and I wouldn't have thought Thunderbird
would be doing it because of mails on the list not causing Thunderbird
to offer the "Reply to List" option.
The list headers can be used for sorting mail, as a better way of
sorting mail into folders (only the actual list mail would go into a
folder, and any private mail you got from someone would not).
I've set up a rule in Thunderbird to move mails into a folder where the
"List-ID" and the "From" tags specify the list mail address domain.
And they can also be used by mail programs for them to decide what
their "reply all" or "group reply" function does by default (while
usually allowing the recipient to override the action). For non-list
mail, it may reply to all the addresses in "to" and "cc" fields, for
when someone is mailing a bunch of people directly without using a list
server (such as staff meetings in a small organisation). For list
mail, it may change the behaviour to do what lists expect (respond to
just the reply-to address, or a list address.
Thunderbird seems to be replying to all addresses if I use "Reply All",
which is what it does for your mails, with your personal mail address
being the first in the list.
My mail program also has a couple of options in the preferences for
"ignore reply-to for mailing lists" (which seems an antisocial
behaviour to me) and "group reply goes only to mailing list, if
possible" (which seems like an override to do expected mailing list
behaviour for lists that aren't set up very well, or to stop replies
also going out to CC addresses).
Thunderbird doesn't seem to have those options, but then I haven't
checked all the options in its internal config as opposed to the gui config.
Neither of which have been selected, and it's working fine to me. But
you'll probably get a message from me coming through the list, and one
directly to you, because your message had your address in the CC field.
I'm specifying the CC because in F42 when I switched to the gmail
account rather than my ISP's account I wasn't getting any mails I sent
to the list being echoed back to me via the list, I raised an issue with
the moderator on the replied not being echoed and that was rectified,
but, having rebuilt my PC and not having enough SATA ports on the new
motherboard I had to ditch my two linux distributions (Ubuntu and
Fedora) and reinstall F43 from scratch on a new disk. That reinstall of
F43 has caused the issue of my mails not being echoed back to me via the
list unless I had a CC to resurface. I don't understand though why the
reinstall would cause that.
regards,
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VERSION:4.0
N:Morris;Stephen;;;
FN:Steve
EMAIL;PREF=1;TYPE=home:[email protected]
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