On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 01:11:18PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a mailing list where in some cases, when I L[ist reply] the To:
> > address ends up as follows:-
> > 
> >     To: [email protected], [email protected]
> 
> Look at the list headers.  How does the list identify itself?  Look
> for a List-Post header.  Do you see something like this?
> 
>   List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> Did you list a mutf configuration listing:
> 
>   subscribe [email protected]
> 
> If so that mismatch is creating your problem.  I have exactly this
> problem with a different mailing list.  Adjusting the mutt subscribe
> configuration to be *only* this should solve the problem.
> 
>   subscribe [email protected]
> 
> Remove any subscription config for [email protected].  Setting it will
> create the problem.  Removing it should fix it.  At least it works
> that way for me.
> 
The trouble is though that some messages to the list won't have the
[email protected] address in them so mutt won't see them as
list E-Mails.


> > I can't see any way to prevent the generation of the double address, it
> > happens because mutt sees two list addresses in the headers and that's
> > just an idiosyncrasy of the list that I can do nothing about.  I can't
> > set my lists/subscribe to just one of [email protected] or
> > [email protected] because then I won't see all messages as being list
> > messages. 
> 
> Yes.  But no.  I mean, please try the suggested configuration I show
> above.  You are correct that you will not see the 'L' flag in the
> index listing for those messages that use the short address.  You will
> only see it for messages that use the long address.  But that won't
> affect you ability to list-reply to any of the mailing list since the
> mailing list is setting the expected mailing headers.  Please try it
> as it should work anyway.  It works that way for me.
> 
OK, I'll try what you say, thanks for the suggestion.


> > So, I want a way to edit the header before sending the message if it has
> > the two addresses as above.
> 
> Before deducing the above configuration for my problem mailing list I
> had piped messages from that mailing list through a procmail rule to
> "fix" the headers.  That worked.  But eventually I was able to use the
> adjusted configuration above and stop munging the mailing list messages.
> 
OK.



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Chris Green

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