On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 09:07:27PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > have been added to Mail-Followup-To by other Mutt users, and I don't use > > the > > lists command at all. > > in that case there would be something funny going on, here is my > theory: > > you post to list, you M-F-To: is set to only the list > > someone (Mr-Broken) with broken mailer uses reply-to-all which CCs you > anyway ignoring M-F-To. > > mutt user uses list-reply to Mr-Broken's post, mutt sees you were CCed > and assumes you should be included since there is no M-F-To header. > mutt then sets the M-F-To header to include you for the benifit of > later list-replies.
Sounds like a reasonable scenario. > if this is the case the solution is fixing broken mailers, many of > them are Free software so why have patches to support M-F-To not been > made? I'd like to see someone convince that M-F-To fix Pine. But I doubt you'll have an easy time getting Crispin to apply a patch. He won't even implement maildir, for christ sake, and patches for that have been around for over 2 years now. --Adam