I have been trying to wrap my head around what suscribe and lists
commands are. For me mutt handles mailing lists perfectly
without these commands so to make sure I am not missing some (not
obvious) benefits allow me to ask the experts.
>From the documentation I found the subscribe command allows to:
- Use the reply-list <L> function to send replies only to the main
mailing list address, not to tha author.
- Honor the Mail-Followup-To header if present.
- Expand %L to the list address instead of the author's address in the
index.
but:
- In my mutt (1.5.20) the reply-list <L> command works correctly even
if I do not have a subscribe command for that mailing list in my
muttrc. That is pressing <L> sets To: to the mailing list address
and pressing <r> sets To: to the authors address.
- The Mail-Followup-To header seems to be considered a bad hack so I
disable it using (http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/ml-mutt):
set followup_to=no
set honor_followup_to=no
- I don't use %L in my index_format....
>From the above I really see no benefit in maintaining a bunch of
subscribe commands for each of the hundred's of mailing lists I read.
And the lists command is like a NOOP command for me. It is like a
subscribe but without any of it's benefits.
Just want to know if it is worth to start writing subscribe commands for
all my mailing list addresses or not.
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regards,
Horacio Sanson
