On 01/30/2018 05:53 PM, Jordan Brown wrote:
[ Feh. My biggest MUA<->ML nuisance is that I don't have a way to force
replies to use the custom From address that I use for that mailing list.
I'm assuming that you're talking about the address that address that
direct replies go to.
My solution is to use a custom From: address (and occasionally to
manually set the Reply-To: address) according to where I want the
message (reply) to go to.
Yes, I use MANY different email addresses for this and similar reasons.
Grant, sorry for the dup. ]
I understand why. I don't hold my preference against you or others.
If your Mailman is configured so:
…
(that is, first_strip_reply_to=No, reply_goes_to_list=This List)
Then if user A sends a message to the list without a Reply-To, replies
will go to the list, but if user B sends a message to the list with
"Reply-To: <user-B>" replies will go to user B.
Okay. I think I'm starting to see the problem that you're alluding to.
It's not so much that people set a Reply-To: in their MUA in and of
itself. It's the interaction of their settings in relation to MLMs
configured like above.
I don't recall Mailman's behavior for reply_goes_to_list=This List to
say for sure, but I would think that without first_strip_reply_to that
Mailman would add the list as an additional Reply-To. Thus replies
would go to the value of Reply-To /and/ to the list.
Some people would regard it as a problem that the replies to user B
aren't directed towards the list.
I agree for discussion lists.
As you say, setting Reply-To to the same as From should have no effect,
but that's not the case in this configuration. (Nor is it the case for
Stephen's proposed "smart single reply", at the MUA end; in his proposal
an explicit Reply-To beats List-Post beats From.)
(I would regard it as a problem that replies to user A *are* directed
toward the list, but we're not talking about my preferences here; I'm
just trying to explain why some people have a problem with a message
that has Reply-To the same as From.)
ACK
Thank you for the explanation.
--
Grant. . . .
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