On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:26:09PM -0500, Bill McCormick wrote:
It seems that the procmail list manager doesn't include a "Reply-to:"
header so that, if one simply *Replies* to a message, it goes to the
sender and not the list. Not, what I think, really should happen. Maybe
I'm rehashing and old issue, but I did search the archive and didn't see
it. Not that it was an exhaustive search :).
Ah... the lovely list reply issue! "Old issue" is a bit of an
understatement, though it is very possible that the issue hasn't been
discussed on this list (I joined recently).
I suggest you read this:
http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
So, ironically, I've just written written a procmail recipe for adding
the "Reply-to" header to all incomming procmail list messages. This
message is actually the first test. If it works, this may be the end of
this thread. Unless there's a better idea.
:0fhw
* LISTNAME ?? "procmail"
| formail -i "Reply-to: procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de"
Alternatively, you could use a mail client that differentiates between
"reply," "reply-group" and "reply-list":
reply: goes to Reply-to: address or From: address (if no Reply-to:)
reply-group: goes to all address in From:, To: and Cc: fields
reply-list: goes to mailing list
If the mailing list was nice enough to include headers identifying
itself, then the mail client shouldn't need additional information
from you. If not, you'll need to tell the client the mailing lists
you're subscribed to (how else is it to be able to identify a mailing
list address?)
Mutt is one client that does a good job of handling these distinctions.
Jason
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