On 17 March 2011 13:49, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 13:43 +0200, Mark Widdicombe wrote:
> >
> > I am a member of the ubuntu-users list.  When I receive an email from the
> > list the sender's email address appears in the 'sender' and 'reply-to'
> > field, so if 'Reply' is clicked, the reply goes to the sender, and if
> 'Reply
> > to all' is clicked, the reply goes to the sender and the list is in the
> 'Cc'
> > field.  If I want to send the reply to the list only, I have to delete
> the
> > sender's address form the 'To' field, copy the 'Cc' (list) address and
> copy
> > it into the 'To' field before clicking 'Send'.
>
> That's all normal, except that I'd expect there to be *no* Reply-To:
> header. Having a Reply-To: header that contains the same address as the
> From: address is a bit odd. Are you *sure* that's the case?
>
> Yes.


> >  Google reveals that the list address should be in the 'Reply-to'
> > field of the original message, not the sender's address,
>
> No, absolutely not. That would trick *private* replies (when you just
> hit 'Reply') to go back to the public list! You don't want that!
>
> > in which case the 'Reply to list' option should be enabled
> > in the 'Message' menu, or CTRL-L would work to reply to the list.
>
> No, Ctrl-L should look at headers like List-Id: or List-Post:, and
> should work fine, regardless of whether the list has an abusive
> Reply-To: header. What happens when you hit Ctrl-L?


CTRL-L does nothing.  'Reply to list' in the message menu is greyed out
(disabled).
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