Re: [HACKERS] Adding Reply-To: <listname> to Lists configuration ...

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:33:18 +0000,
Chris Green <chris(at)areti(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:02:41AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:49:46 +0000,
> > Chris Green <chris(at)areti(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > This is a perpetual problem, if people all used the same MUA and
> > > (assuming it has the capability) all used the 'reply to list' command
> > > to reply to the list everything would be wonderful! :-)
> >
> > I think using mail-followup-to is better than having people do reply to list.
> >
> It depends on how the 'reply to list' is implemented surely. With
> mutt (the MUA I use) you specify the addresses of known mailing lists
> and the 'reply to List' command uses this to detect from the headers
> whether the mail is from a list or not and acts accordingly.

That doesn't work in general since the client can't know which recipients are
actually on the list.

However mutt does utilize mail-followup-to headers when doing group replies
and that works well for replying to lists.