On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:06:30PM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:37:23PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > >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? > > List-Post is always used when the list-reply function is invoked. > There is not configuration option to disable that. > > >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]. > > Mutt doesn't have any way for the user to let it know about mailing > list aliases, so when you invoke list-reply it pulls out all > addresses which match, along with List-Post. > > >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. > > http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3599
Thanks for that, it at least shows I'm not completely silly! :-) -- Chris Green
