On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:53:59AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 05/19/16 10:39, Gary Lin wrote: > > Cc Samer and Nagaraj. > > I saw them with "git sent-email --dry-run". Wonder how they were dropped. > > They were not dropped. The list software is trying to be smart. > > Namely, if you go to <https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel>, > and click "Unsubscribe or edit options", you can toggle a number of > mailing list options for your subscriptions. One of these options is: > > Avoid duplicate copies of messages? > > This affects how the list software reflects an email to you that you > were also directly addressed on. > > Some people (including me) like to receive duplicate copies. Meaning, if > you CC me on a patch that you send to the list, I will get a direct copy > from you (due to the CC), plus the list software will send me another > copy (*because* I have enabled duplicate copies). I like to see one > instance of your patch in my INBOX, and another one in my edk2-devel > folder (which is supposed to be a complete archive). > > However, others don't like to receive duplicates. They prefer the list > software not to send them a reflected message, if they are also on the > CC list directly. When the list software is deciding about reflecting a > message to subscriber X, and subscriber X has disabled duplicates, and > subscriber X is also on the CC list of the message that the list > software received from the submitter, then the list software assumes > subscriber X has the message anyway (directly from the submitter), and > will not reflect the message to subscriber X. > > *But*, to actually answer your question, in this latter case something > else happens to. Namely, subscriber X is *also* removed from the CC list > of the message that the list software sends out to any other > subscribers. I guess the idea is, "subscriber X likes to receive exactly > one copy of each message on the list; so he got one copy of the thread > starter directly from the submitter, and he will get one copy of each > followup message too, sent by others, reflected by the list software". > If the CC were preserved in the reflected thread starter, then followup > messages would arrive to subscriber X both directly and reflected by the > list. > > For the submitter, this CC munging is incredibly confusing and annoying. > But, if you know about the above, it is more tolerable. > > As a side effect, you can now deduce that Samer and Nagaraj have *not* > enabled duplicate copies in their options. :) > Thanks for the detailed explanation. So my mail server config is alright. I'm much relieved now :)
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