On Wed, 2025-12-10 at 18:03 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thunderbird doesn't appear to give me that option, but for this mail it > gave me "Reply List" as the top option in a list, where the other two > entries were "Reply All" and "Reply".
There's a certain amount of automation involved with this, and some mail clients offer user overrides and customisable default choices. When I post to someone, my message comes from a "from" address, and that's where replies will go. I can put in a "reply-to" address, and replies will automatically be sent to go there, instead. Such as an email to [email protected] may respond to a query and suggest you follow it up with [email protected] and set a reply-to address that automatically does that for you. The recipient of that message can go with the defaults, or override them, when they reply. Some mail clients will notify them that their reply is going to a different address, many did not. When I post to a mailing list they usually set a "reply-to" address that points to the list, and that sends replies back to where everyone expects them to go. They may also add various "list-" addresses in the header that identifies the message as being list mail, amongst other things. The list headers can be used for sorting mail, as a better way of sorting mail into folders (only the actual list mail would go into a folder, and any private mail you got from someone would not). And they can also be used by mail programs for them to decide what their "reply all" or "group reply" function does by default (while usually allowing the recipient to override the action). For non-list mail, it may reply to all the addresses in "to" and "cc" fields, for when someone is mailing a bunch of people directly without using a list server (such as staff meetings in a small organisation). For list mail, it may change the behaviour to do what lists expect (respond to just the reply-to address, or a list address. My mail program also has a couple of options in the preferences for "ignore reply-to for mailing lists" (which seems an antisocial behaviour to me) and "group reply goes only to mailing list, if possible" (which seems like an override to do expected mailing list behaviour for lists that aren't set up very well, or to stop replies also going out to CC addresses). Neither of which have been selected, and it's working fine to me. But you'll probably get a message from me coming through the list, and one directly to you, because your message had your address in the CC field. I can justifiably presume that you want that behaviour, because your address is in the CC field. I can also make an educated guess that the list server did that, and you made no such decision, nor were even aware of it. But I cannot tell. Some people do that so they know when there's a message to them on the list, if they're not a full-time participant on the list. Some mail clients used to highlight messages to the recipient in their mail folder, making them very obvious. My old one, back in the Amiga days, did, but this one doesn't. I may play around and so something to set that up. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
