On Friday 28 September 2007, Porkchop wrote: > On 28/09/07 22:42 -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote: > > Another thing which occurred to me as I hit send, is that you may simply > > be dealing with people who, like me, by default reply to someone > > directly and the list at the same time with the 'group reply' option. > > I think thats it. Also, see the headers of each of these messages. The one > I'm replying to now had this header: Reply-To: [email protected], Mike > Kershaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It seems that the list will append itself to the "Reply-To:" header, rather > than replace it (which I know Sympa did). Most mail clients, regardless of > "group reply" or not, will by default reply to all the "Reply-To:" > addresses.
Yep, sure enough. That explains the behavior that I was seeing; twice I was sent a private mail that was also sent to the list -- both were messages that were in reply to a msg I had sent to the list. Not every mailing list message has the list and an individual email address in the Reply-To: header, but most of them do. The routing of the private messages vs the list messages appears to be different, too [being sent from the sender's ISP rather than Mhvlug's], so this isn't an issue of Mailman duplicating the messages -- it's just the Reply-To: header that's generating that by default from our mail clients. That also explains why the private messages aren't getting the normally added Mhvlug text at the bottom of the message. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 3 - Security and Privacy Nov 7 - Django Python Application Framework
