Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:45:36 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a dedicated mail client for list messages ? Message-ID: <20170112164536.3562e4bf@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20170112161707.874d23a0.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <mailman.129.1484222402.46410.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <VI1PR02MB09741B87F98BC73CF495AF9CF6790@VI1PR02MB0974.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20170112161707.874d23a0.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:17:07 +0100, Polytropon wrote: >On a message, use the mailer's reply function "Reply to all" or "Reply >to mailing list". > >Again, allow me to recommend Sylpheed. Sylpheed, as well as Claws-Mail invoke mailing list replies by "Reply" and not by "Reply All". This does cause a different reply behaviour, depending on an overwritten or not overwritten "Reply-To" header by the mailman settings chosen by the list owner and it depends on the fact that a subscriber does use a "Reply-To" header or not. Evolution OTOH invokes mailing list replies by "Reply to all". MUAs invoking mailing list replies by "Reply to all" only reply to the mailing list, but Claws does reply to the mailing list, as well as CC'ing to Reply-To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> if I use Claws-Mail's "Reply" (invoking a mailing list reply) or "Reply to Mailing list" option. The advantage is, if a subscriber, e.g. on an open list like FreeBSD does use the "Reply-To" header and it's not overwritten with the mailing list address (FreeBSD question's doesn't, but other mailman lists sometimes do), then all replies to mailing list are CC'ed to the original author, who not necessarily is subscribed. The disadvantage is, that I actually needed to remove Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> from the CC address bar. Assuming Polytropon should protect himself against duplicated mails, by using the mailman subscriber setting for this purpose, he unfortunately would receive original mails without a mailing list header, since mailman just doesn't path through duplicates. IOW in this case a reply to a mailing list wouldn't work for him at all, he would need to add the mailing list address manually. Actually there is no MUA able to handle all mailing list reply possibilities automatically, if the users of a mailing list don't understand the mailing list settings made by the list owner and the behaviour of different MUAs. Regards, Ralf
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