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). -- Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. -- Wm. Shakespeare -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
