On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:20:52AM -0800, alex wetmore wrote: > > > No. The mail client sends a copy to the author, mailman can't stop that. > > > However, if the mail client is mutt, or some similarily enlightened MUA, you > > > can use list reply to, and if you insert a Mail-Followup-To, you can clue > > > the client to have reply to all only reply to the list. > > > > Mailman could look at the To and Cc lines of the message and make sure > > it doesn't sent to members which are listed on those lines. This > > would result in each person getting one copy, either from the list or > > from the sender who hit "reply to all". > > That's what I was saying, it's an option Ben wrote and that just got > included in mailman cvs
You described this as a mutt feature (or maybe I missed something), I was suggesting it as a mailman feature. > > Ideally this would be a per-client setting. A lot of email systems > > will delete duplicate emails with the same Message-ID so someone who > > Really? I wasn't aware of that. > (I think that very few Email systems do this. Exchange is the first one I > hear of that does that according to what you say. This is by the way not > necessarily something you want. If I bounce you a message of mine that you > lost, you'll never receive the copy) Exchange only keeps the msg-id for about an hour. It also looks like it might check some other headers, because I get duplicates on one list which is run by Listserv. They mangle a lot of the headers before sending the message back out, but not the Message-ID. > > is on the To line and on the list doesn't see the message twice > > anyway. My email comes into an Exchange 2000 Server which I access > > using Pine over IMAP. Exchange deletes the duplicates, and Pine is > > Mmmmhh, why do I have outlook users whining that they can't handle the fact > that they were receiving dupes and that they had no way (they said) to > remove them. > Granted, all of them don't use exchange, but... The majority of them probably don't use Exchange, especially list users who are probably subscribed from home and read email through a POP account on an ISP. alex ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
