Hello, Am Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2005 16:05 schrieb Johannes Kastl: [...] > When I want to reply on a mail from the opensuse list I only have to > press reply, cause the Headers are "rewritten" by the > mailinglist-software so that they contain a REPLY-TO: Header.
Yes - unfortunately most opensuse lists have the Reply-To: set to the list adress :-( On a first look, you may think it makes it easier to reply to the list. However, you could have the same functionality using your mail client's "list-reply" feature. Is clicking another button harder? IMHO not. On the other hand, the Reply-To: to the list makes it difficult to reply off-list. You have to click reply, remove the list adress from To: and copy&paste the wanted receipent adress to To: which is circumstantial. Without Reply-To: set to the list, you could just use the "reply" button - and "list-reply" for answers to the mailinglist. Oh, and if you want to send some private data off-list, it could be even dangerous if you don't notice the Reply-To: set to the list... The other way round (answers sent off-list accidently) are not that bad, "only" annoying. More reasons for not setting Reply-To: to the list: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html I already had a little discussion with Adrian. His argument for setting the Reply-To was mainly that most open source mailinglists have it set. I don't believe so - most of the lists I'm subscribed to (including [EMAIL PROTECTED]) do _not_ set it. Additionally, mailman has a big warning in its config interface about mangling the Reply-To: I'd vote for removing the Reply-To: set to the list. Comments? Regards, Christian Boltz PS: Fortunately, KMail is able to ignore the Reply-To set to the list if set up correctly ;-) (correctly means: "reply to author" and the mailinglist setu up in the folder properties) See also the german SUSE Linux FAQ: 13.2. KDE >= 3.2: Warum schickt KMail meine Antwort immer an die Mailingliste? http://suse-linux-faq.koehntopp.de/q/q-mua-kmail_listreply.html (sorry, not available in english) -- "Kann mir jemand seine Erfahrungen mit dem Gigaset Router schildern. Ich möchte mit dem Gerät meine Kaffemaschine Mitropa 3000+ (SW-Stand 47.11 / HW-Rev.: 08/15) mit Ethernet-Interface fernbedienen, ist das Gerät geeignet und wie muß ich vorgehen?" [Eric Scheen in suse-linux] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
