Re: Are subscribe and lists commands obsolete?
* On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 09:42AM +0900 Horacio Sanson (hsan...@gmail.com) muttered: I have been trying to wrap my head around what suscribe and lists commands are. For me mutt handles mailing lists perfectly without these commands so to make sure I am not missing some (not obvious) benefits allow me to ask the experts. If the List provides List-Id headers that's true. HTH, Michael -- There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader. (Unknown source) PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC1A44DD Jabber: init...@amessage.de
Are subscribe and lists commands obsolete?
I have been trying to wrap my head around what suscribe and lists commands are. For me mutt handles mailing lists perfectly without these commands so to make sure I am not missing some (not obvious) benefits allow me to ask the experts. From the documentation I found the subscribe command allows to: - Use the reply-list L function to send replies only to the main mailing list address, not to tha author. - Honor the Mail-Followup-To header if present. - Expand %L to the list address instead of the author's address in the index. but: - In my mutt (1.5.20) the reply-list L command works correctly even if I do not have a subscribe command for that mailing list in my muttrc. That is pressing L sets To: to the mailing list address and pressing r sets To: to the authors address. - The Mail-Followup-To header seems to be considered a bad hack so I disable it using (http://larve.net/people/hugo/2000/07/ml-mutt): set followup_to=no set honor_followup_to=no - I don't use %L in my index_format From the above I really see no benefit in maintaining a bunch of subscribe commands for each of the hundred's of mailing lists I read. And the lists command is like a NOOP command for me. It is like a subscribe but without any of it's benefits. Just want to know if it is worth to start writing subscribe commands for all my mailing list addresses or not. -- regards, Horacio Sanson
