On 27 July 2010 15:13, Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michael Chesterton wrote:
>
>> Personally I find lists and people setting reply-to annoying. I mean
>> how important are you that you can't be disturbed by an email in your
>> in box.
>
> Thats an extremely short-sighted view.
>
> I am on a well over 50 mailing lists, some of which can have
> high volumes (the kernel mailing list can peak at over 50 emails
> an hour). Having that torrent end up in my inbox is completely out
> of the question as I also receive emails directly to me that need
> to be acted on at relatively short notice.
>
>> There's also the option of filtering the direct emails so you never
>> have to see them.
>
> I do this filtering using procmail triggered by the List-Id.
>
> The problem is that if I send a email to this list and I set a
> Reply-To (and no, Mail-Followup-To is not well supported) and
> someone does a reply-to-all a two things can happen depending
> on the list setup:
>
>  a) I get two copies, the direct one and via the list software.
>     The first ends up in my inbox, and the second in the correct
>     folder.
>
>
>  b) The list software recognises that I was CCed and doesn't send
>     me a copy so I only get the direct copy, which ends up in my
>     inbox.
>
> For case a) I have to remember whether I can delete it for this
> list or whether I should manually move it to the correct folder.
>
> This whole problem becomes far worse if I get CCed a copy on
> discussion thread of hundreds of messages where everyone is
> CC-ing me.

Sure but this has problem with the first issue :)
a) - because you probably want that email to not be filtered / tagged
like the others. How well does setting that reply-to work in mutt if I
want follow a list - but I am more interested in replies to what I
have sent? ... (gmail does this better I think - but I am not sure).

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