Matt Williams wrote: > 2009/9/3 John Smith <[email protected]>: >> 2009/9/3 Patrick Petschge <[email protected]>: >>> Right. Any sane mail client does that. Based on the list-header, without >> Virtually no mail client does this. Right, wrong or indifferent it's >> how things are and I highly doubt anyone new to mailing lists would >> have such a client. > > I know that at least KMail has this feature. If there's a list-id in > the header it will offer you a 'Reply to all', 'Reply to author' and > 'Reply to list' option and default to the latter. Given this, it works > fine on all these OSM mailing lists.
Sylpheed Claws can reply to list as well and Thunderbird has an add-on which adds the command [1]. Cheers Christoph [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455 > However, GMail doesn't which is frankly stupid and annoying. > Especially since it default to replying to _just_ the author of the > email and not the list at all. > > So, really, this is a problem with the email clients being stupid and > the mailing list seems to be set up correctly. The email header's > don't have a 'reply-to' field so it seems that GMail defaults to > replying to the address in the 'From' field. Even when there's > obviously List headers: > > Precedence: list > List-Id: OpenStreetMap user discussion <talk.openstreetmap.org> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk>, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk> > List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> > List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=help> > List-Subscribe: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk>, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe> > > (In fact it happened when sending this email that GMail defaulted to > sending it to just John and I forgot to change it. This is my second > try. This needs a bug report to GMail) > > Regards, > Matt Williams > http://milliams.com > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
