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. -- Chris Green
