Thank you Mark and Stephen for your help and replies. I made the appropriate changes and informed all subscribers how the 'Reply' and 'Reply All' options work.
Joe. On June 24, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <[email protected]> wrote: > Joe writes: > >> I would like to have mail addressed to the list with a simple >> 'Reply' and addressed to both the list and the sender with a 'Reply >> All'. >> >> Can Mailman be configured to behave this way ? > > No. Replies are generated by subscriber-side mail clients, not by > Mailman. Mailman *already* *by default* provides enough information > for them to do what you suggest on simple replies[1] (and IMHO that > should be default behavior!), and then Reply All would Just Work > Right. But mostly they don't (in any configuration, let alone by > default). As Mark explains, the Reply-To header can't be used because > it breaks Reply All.[2] > > IIRC Mozilla Thunderbird and Sylpheed (and maybe Evolution) do this > right. But trying to convince subscribers to change their MUAs is > like trying to get addicts to give up their drugs. :-( > > A few other clients (Mutt, Emacs/Gnus) have a reply-to-list function, > which often does the right thing (ie, fall back to reply-to-author if > it can't figure out what list is meant). It is easier to get them to > use the function if already present in their client, but that's quite > a bit of work for somebody to find out what clients people are using > and if they have the function. > > Footnotes: > [1] The RFC 2369 "List-Post" header. > > [2] This is because the definition of "Reply-To" in the email > standard is "The *author* says he doesn't want replies to go to > 'From', he wants you to use this address. Thank you!" > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
