[Mailman-Users] Reply-to options not working

Jordan Brown mailman at jordan.maileater.net
Tue Jan 30 22:26:19 EST 2018


On 1/30/2018 6:22 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 01/30/2018 04:53 PM, Jordan Brown wrote:
>> (that is, first_strip_reply_to=No, reply_goes_to_list=This List)
>>
>> Then if user A sends a message to the list without a Reply-To, replies
>> will go to the list, but if user B sends a message to the list with
>> "Reply-To: <user-B>" replies will go to user B.
>
> No.  In the User A case messages from the list will have a Reply-To with
> the list address and replies (ignoring the pathological recent
> Thunderbird) will go to the list as you say, but in the User B case,
> messages from the list will have a Reply-To with both User B's address
> and the list address and replies will go to both User B and the list.
>
> Of course, not all MUA's behave exactly the same with reply in cases
> where there are multiple addresses in Reply-To: but reasonable ones at
> least will address the reply to all the Reply-To: addresses.
>

Thanks for the correction.

(Then I don't know why people are unhappy when Reply-To == From.)




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