On 27.04.18 08:57, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > I always thought $followup_to was a pretty nice feature. While I > sympathize with Matthias, the mischief was the result of > misconfiguration, and Mutt requires nothing if not attention to the > documentation and configuration. > > However, if there is a strong majority of mutt-users subscribers that > agree with $followup_to defaulting to 'no', I'll make the change.
Here, <F1> declares: "Mutt also supports the Mail-Followup-To header. When you send a message to a list of recipients which includes one or several subscribed mailing lists, and if the $followup_to option is set, Mutt will generate a Mail-Followup-To header which contains all the recipients to whom you send this message, but not your address." The request for a changed default seems to have arisen from Matthias' Mail-Followup-To header erroneously including his own address. It does seem likely that this problem arises from misconfiguration, as no-one shares his difficulties. Here I have both subscribed lists, and some not. In the latter case, Mail-Followup-To is not generated, and in the former I find only the other recipients, as described in the manual. That is with no $followup_to setting, i.e. default, as Matthias has. What other configuration is required in order to place the sender's address in Mail-Followup-To, in contradiction to the manual entry is then a curiosity. Erik