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Re: mail-followup-to / mail-copies-to

2005-05-25 05:12:03

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Bruce Lilly wrote:

Try starting with John Klensin's message "draft-moore-mail-nr-fields-00"
dated August 26 2004.  The discussion ran until near the end of the year
under various subject headings.

Ah, yes. Thank you. I'll read through that.

Different UAs have different sets of reply options, and ones named
similarly often do different things in different UAs.  Right now
I'm using Kmail, which has:

1. Reply...
2. Reply To All
3. Reply To Author
4. Reply To Mailing List

along with various "Forward" options.  All options allow editing the
set of recipients.  Reply To Author is supported by several UAs, and
allows replies to the author(s) -- as listed in the original message's
header From field -- overriding Reply-To.

The problem is that with the introduction of List-* header, several MUAs now have a "list reply" function, which will only reply to the list mailbox. The multiple Reply-To trick doesnt work.

Given that List-* allows MUAs to now behave differently if list context is detected (typically: mail only list), I'd like a way for originator to affect behaviour of responding MUAs in that context.

I'll read that thread.

regards,
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