Folder hooks are helping me make an ass of myself - need some more creative ideas

[Louis LeBlanc]

Hey folks.  I need some help here to stop making an ass of myself on
mailing lists.

First, a description of how I keep doing this:

My imap account is divided into quite a number of folders, each of
which I can have mail delivered directly into by using the 'plussed
users' format - note my From header.  This is because I subscribe to a
good number of lists - 6 at the moment - and I don't want to make Mutt
do the sorting everytime I log in.  That could take forever -
especially since some of those lists have several aliases and can be
quite heavy in traffic.

So my natural inclination was to set up a macro that automagically
sets my From, Reply-To, and To headers tied to a folder hook for each
folder.  Easy.  Works like a charm.  Except when I ask for specific
info, sometimes the person helping me chooses - often for good reason
- to reply directly to me, rather than on list.

Well, When I reply back - not with 'L' but with 'r', yep, you guessed
it, I have inappropriately brought an off list discussion back on
list, often leaving out some important context.  Very annoying.
People get quite flustered about it too.  Understandibly so.

So how can I 'smarten' mutt up a little so that the To header is not
automagically set if I hit 'r' instead of 'L'?

Thanks everyone.

PS:  Please refrain from taking this one off list so I don't prove
once again that I'm a bloody scatterbrain :)

Thanks
Lou
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Re: Folder hooks are helping me make an ass of myself - need some more creative ideas

[Will Yardley]

Louis LeBlanc wrote:
 
 Well, When I reply back - not with 'L' but with 'r', yep, you guessed
 it, I have inappropriately brought an off list discussion back on
 list, often leaving out some important context.  Very annoying.
 People get quite flustered about it too.  Understandibly so.

perhaps you should not set the 'Reply-to' or 'To' headers and just the
'From' header? that's what i do.

eg if i hit 'r' instead of 'L', my folder hook still sets the 'from'
address to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', (which is intentional - so
that follow-ups directed directly to me are at least categorized in the
correct folder)

hitting 'L' should automatically set the correct 'to' field so there's
no need to set this.  i suppose one could argue as to whether or not
setting the 'Reply-To' header to the list is a good idea; i'd just
nicely ask people to reply to the list if they accidentally reply to me
instead.

hitting 'L' should also set 'Mail-Followup-To' correctly, so assuming
other peoples' clients follow this (what other mail clients besides mutt
pay attention to this?) that should help make sure the reply is directed
appropriately.

this scheme messes me up sometimes too when i forward a message from a
list and forget to edit the header.  such is life.

w

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