On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 20:35, Jack Coates wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:24, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > ... > > > > > > > <rant> > > > > > > > > Stupid fecking reply-to: settings screwing up mailing lists really > > > > really bugs me... if you didn't want my reply to go to the mailing > > > > list, why did you bother sending your message to the mailing list? > > > > > > why don't you just configure your mailclient right if it get that much on > > > your nerves ? I guess Ximian evolution should be able to handle > > > mailinglists right. ( <== no rant or flame its a suggestion) > > > > I'm open to suggestion, but I don't see an "override the requested > > Reply-To: with the mailing list address" option. I could Reply-All to > > every email I receive, but then I'm getting on the nerves of the people > > who don't filter out duplicate emails (usually the ones who set > > Reply-To: in the first place). > > On Kmail I filter the mailinglist in a folder for that mailinglist. A > right-click on that folder offers me a preferences menu and there I can tell > "This folder contains a mailinglist" and fill in a reply-to for that > mailinglist. After that is configured I can press "L" for List-reply. This > should be possible in a similar way for all Linux-mail-clients. Since I have > no evolution at hand I can't say how to do the same in that app. Maybe > someone other can jump in here ?
Ah. In Evolution it's right-click the message and choose Reply to List. A fine workaround, though in either case (Evo or Kmail) the workflow is unacceptable: 1) decide to reply. 2) click reply. 3) write message. 4) click send. 5) realize that it didn't go to the list. 6) investigate why in "Sent". 7) start a new reply using To-List workaround. 8) copy and paste from Sent into a new mail message. Steps 5 through 8 of course very rarely get done, in which case the answer doesn't get archived, the conversation thread is not public, and the usefulness of the mailing list is decreased. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
