On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:17:38AM -0400, Marc Sherman wrote: > > Steven Wayne wrote: > > > >Yes, I'm setting "Mail-Followup-To" to subscribed mailing lists in > >Mutt. I don't think that's Debian specific. I also don't expect a > >mailing list to follow anyone's list policies other than their > >own. > > MFT isn't Debian-specific, per se, but "obey MFT or we'll say 'Please > don't mail me, I'm on the list' in every message we send you and Branden > will write nasty stuff about you on his website" is. :)
That might be interesting, and it wasn't every message just the two that emailed me directly. > Debian can do that, because Mutt is the default MUA, and it is also one > of the few MUAs that support MFT. I didn't know Mutt was the default Debian MUA. Another thing I've learnt today. I got the idea from http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html > This mailing list, on the other hand, has a strict policy of saying > "Please don't top post" in every reply, as required. Good, top-posting is anoying. > >I wasn't aware that Mail-Followup-To was non-standard, I'll > >reconfigure mutt to use Reply-to. Haven't figured that one out yet. > For this list's policy, see: > http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/MailingListEtiquette > > and in particular: > http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/MailingListEtiquette#head-528dd2a82d3bbadfa6e026bb6e50992d30a01a3a I'll read them later tonight, thanks for the pointers. > >I only asked that replies go to the list and not me personally > >because I have procmail receipes that filter out things but I > >save mailing list emails first based on the X-BeenThere header. > > Once you set reply-to, your request will be respected automatically by > (most of) the MUAs of the readers of this list. I wonder what the most popular MUA is for people on this list? > >I seem to have got off on the wrong foot here, sorry. > > No worries, welcome aboard. Ta. Steven. -- (o_ //\ V_/_ -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
