On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:23:56AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Chris Green <[email protected]> [11-29-12 11:08]:
> > I have been trying to work out for a while why I sometimes send two
> > copies of some messages to mailing lists. I finally worked out why, the
> > L[ist reply] command will send to any address which is like:-
> >
> > List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
> >
> > *as well as* any message that matches the name found in the subscribe
> > and/or lists commands in muttrc.
> >
> > Is there any way to disable the use of the List-Post: entry, or any way
> > to prevent mutt from sending to two addresses?
> >
> > On this list there's always a List-Post: header and, sometimes there is
> > also a To: [email protected] which also works for the same list.
>
> I have not found this a problem. I haven't noticed *myself* sending dups
> to the/any list using the "list reply" function "L". You undoubtedly have
> something in ~/.muttrc. W/o seeing your .muttrc, I can only suggest
> saving your present .muttrc to another name and making a new minimal
> .muttrc to use for testing. Set a fictitious mailing list in .muttrc with
> an address you control and use it for testing. Add sections of your
> original .muttrc between tests until you notice dups occuring.
>
> If you have recorded or can identify the list[s] where the dups occur,
> look in your .muttrc for similarities to those list posting addrs.
> Playing with them could minimize the effort necessary.
>
It's not my .muttrc, it's just one list that I subscribe to which has
two addresses. Only one address ever appears in List-Post: but the
alternative address sometimes appears in To: or Cc: headers, thus there
can be messages with the following:-
List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Since I have [email protected] in 'subscribes' and 'lists' mutt will
reply to *both* [email protected] and [email protected]
when I hit L[ist reply].
I *think* I may be able to fix the problem by removing [email protected]
from subscribe/lists but it's not ideal because I also need to know that
messages sent to [email protected] are messages to the list.
What I was really complaining about was that mutt uses the List-Post:
header and that this *isn't* as documented.
--
Chris Green
