On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 14:58:57 PM -0600, Barbara Duprey ([email protected]) wrote:
> The OOo list management (ezmlm or CollabNet-- I'd love to know who > does what here) sets a Reply-To header that includes only the list > address. This precedes the original Reply-To containing whatever the > sender specified, or the sender's address by default. In > Thunderbird, at least, this means that the From and the sender's > Reply-To are ignored; Reply and Reply All both are set up to go only > to the list. Is Thunderbird's response typical? Yes, in the sense that any well done mail client (as Thunderbird is) obeys the standard, which is "reply means to reply to all and only the addresses listed in the Reply-To header". So if the list management software has been configured to write in the Reply-To header only the list email address, that's what will happen, and (in general) the only way to reply both to the list and the OP is by hand, as you said. There may be special settings in Thunderbirds and other MUAs to override this, I don't know, but in general a mail client will work like that by default. The discussions all over the Internet over what is the "right" address(es) that a mailing list software should write in the Reply-To header are even worst than those on how to handle unsubscribed posters on the users list. Basically, every list works as its moderator feels it should work. This and the fact that collabnet never bothered to listen subscribers request make changing the settings for this list basically impossible to achieve, so you are right to not consider it. > In any case, a strategy that relies on Reply All apparently would > first require changes to the setting of the Reply-To header. That > puts it outside the bounds of the kind of solution I'm investigating > (by the way, I'm up to three alternatives now, plus possible > combinations!). Note that this does not apply to responses to > attachments in digest-form messages Stop investigating and manually add the OP address (as you were already doing anyway, it would not be an extra effort) whenever you answer to a new message on the us...@ooo list from somebody whose name you don't remember. It will work much better and generate much, much less list traffic and flames than what's already happening or what you're investigating now. You are "to three alternatives now, plus possible combinations", which don't work in the digest-form case, and any of the things you've figured out may very well break next week, as soon as some new version of a mail or newsgroup client changes its default behavior, or the webform on the website or gmane or other newsgroup archive change the way they work... Why waste any more time over this investigation? Marco -- OOo4Kids, the OpenOffice for all children... and their parents: http://stop.zona-m.net/node/42 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
