Hi,
* Derrick 'dman' Hudson [02-07-14 03:11:36 +0200] wrote:
Problem :
Sometimes a message received via a mailing list, but doesn't
mention the list in any of the recipient headers. (eg a member
bounced an off-list reply back to the list) Mutt's list-reply
function doesn't recognize any lists in that case.
These are BCCs to lists which is really bad. If someone BCCs
a mail to a list he/she should write a few words why the
original receipent doesn't need to know why it's going to a
list, too. Anyway, how often does that happen and is it
worth to spent time on working around this?
Solution (my idea) :
For MLMs that include a List-Post: header, I think it would be
useful if mutt would (or could) use that to derive the address of
the list.
See Cedric's answer. There's an RfC specifying those headers
and I've only seen Mailman adding them. It could be
difficult to parse them.
I can think of several ways of handling this --
1) use List-Post: by default. Doesn't require setting 'lists'.
2) use List-Post: if no 'lists'/'subscribe' addresses are found
using current methods
3) use List-Post: in addition to current method
4) a configuration option to choose from the above.
In which form of reply do you want the address to be used?
Normal reply, group reply or list reply? This is really
important since I don't believe anybody does a BCC to a list
without purpose. What do you do if the Reply-To: and
Mail-Followup-To: headers don't mention the list, too? If
the sender doesn't want answers to go to the list, too, a
user may run into trouble by accidently sending a reply to
the list.
Do people think this is a good idea?
Generally, yes since there's an RfC for those headers. But
on the other hand, there're already 5 headers it has to take
care of with the different reply methods: From:, To:, Cc:,
Reply-To: and Mail-Followup-To:. The current reply behaviour
has to be adjusted by giving more details than your 3
methods, I think.
Can it be added to the wishlist?
If you want to do, just use flea(1) to report a bug with a
severity of 'whishlist'.
bye, Rocco
