mdw1982

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone else happens to be using Mozilla Thunderbird and
seeing this behavior, and also if this behavior is a feature or a bug.

When I hit the reply button to respond to a message most of the time the
actual sender's address is the one the message is being sent to rather
than the list itself. This is the first mailing list I've been on that
I've seen this behavior; all other lists I'm on when one hits the reply
button, or CTRL+R the mailing list's address is inserted as it should be
and is expected.

I know with some email clients there is a menu item specifically there
for responding "to the list" based on whether or not there is a
list-header in the header information but that isn't an available option
with Thunderbird. Is anyone else seeing this behavior or is there
something I'm missing?

Mark

topnotcher

Yeah. I always forget to reply to all.

The problem is with the headers. Whereas other lists have a reply-to:
<mailing list address> in the email headers, this list does not. It annoys
the hell out of me.

admin

Doesn't happen with me because I use Newsgroup type subscription system.
I.e. I have created a newsgroup account for news.php.net

mdw1982

Why in the bloody hell doesn't the list admin simply "add" that reply-to
header. As far as I know Sendmail adds that auto-magically by default.
(I'm assuming they're not using Sendmail as the lists' MTA). It sure
would make life easier wouldn't it? How long has it been this way?

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admin

The list admin, if uses a program called ezlm (or something similar), it
adds the List-Id or the Newsgroups header which also helps.

They must have it.

mdw1982

Boy! is this tempting...

I've got a sendmail server running with Mailman installed on it that I'm
already running lists on it.

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mdw1982

hmmm... I wonder if Sylpheed for Windows will handle this? I'll have to
take a look.

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aballard

It's not specific to Thunderbird or any other mail client. I'm pretty
sure it was configured that way on purpose. Have a look at this
thread:

http://marc.info/?l=php-general&m=105700032521606&w=2

Andrew

tedd.sperling

I always reply to all and then cut out everything that isn't
php-general@lists.php.net.

I know, there's probably a better way, but that's what I do.

Cheers,

tedd
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mdw1982

well, obviously since the issue still exists it's clear that this never
got resolved. I just don't understand the obstenant behavior of some
folks in the presence of clear and plain logic. Especially from a
programmer. Makes no sense at all.

Guess I'm off to create the necessary recipe for Procmail to do the
adult thing and make sense of the non-sense.

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