On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:31:40PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:10:40AM +0100, Asmund Skjaveland wrote:
> > I use mutt 1.2.5, and read a few mailing list.
> > I also use automatic filtering of my mail to put it all in the appropriate
> > mailboxes. And I'm wondering what the subscribe command in mutt does, other
> > than showing what mailing list the mail was sent to rather than who sent it.
> > Since each mailing list goes in its own mailbox, I already know the mails
> > were sent to the mailing list in question, and would much rather see who
> > sent the mail. So, does the subscribe command have any actual use, or is it
> > just there to annoy?
> > Even if I tell mutt "unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]", the list-reply command still
> > works.
>
> The 'subscribe' command helps 1. if all your mail is delivered to one inbox,
> where you can easily see which messages go where, and 2. (MUCH more important,
> at least for me) in conjunction with the followup_to variable, it helps mutt
> generate a Mail-Followup-To: header when you List-reply or Group-reply.
(or even when you send a message to a list mutt has marked as subscribed-to
like in your case - my mail in reply to your message only went to the list,
not to you personally, because your message had a Mail-Followup-To: hdr)
G'luck,
Peter
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