David Guntner wrote: > Marc Powell grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: squirrelmail-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> [mailto:squirrelmail-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >>> Of David Guntner >>> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 1:45 PM >>> To: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> Subject: Replying to list (was Re: Spam Sent From >>> WebMail) >>> >>> Bill Landry grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >>> >>>> Freddie Cash wrote: >>>> >>>>> On September 6, 2007 06:45 am John Hinton wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Configure your e-mail program correctly. :) Works fine in >>>>> KMail/Kontact, Thunderbird 2.0, and Squirrelmail 1.5.1. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Not so. I run Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, and a simple "reply" goes to >>>> the poster's e-mail address, not back to the list. >>>> >>> Check your settings, then. I use Claws, and hitting "reply" goes >>> back to the mailing list just fine. >>> >>> Although, upon inspecting the message headers, I sure don't *see* a >>> Reply-To: header in there (maybe I'm just missing it?). So now I'm >>> >> not >> >>> sure *why* my hitting reply goes back to the list address.... :-) >>> >> I'd have to say that while the behavior of those mailers is >> convenient, it's non-standard. Since there's no explicit Reply-To >> header, the proper behavior would be to reply to the envelope from >> address, which is the original sender in this case. I'd guess that >> these other mailers are looking at the less universal X-BeenThere or >> List-Post headers, if present, to make an educated guess about a >> 'better' reply address. >> > > Not on a mailing list, it isn't (the envelope sender is not the > original poster of the message being sent via the list). Mailing lists > set the envelope sender in a way to deal with bounces and so on. For > example, *this* mailing list sets it to > squirrelmail-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx You wouldn't want to > send a message to *that* address... :-) > > Since there isn't a Reply-To: header set for this list, I'm really not > sure why my hitting "reply" goes back to the list address instead of > the sender on the From:. I haven't checked that deeply into the > options for Claws, but I'm guessing that it *could* be that there's a > setting somewhere that tells it that when replying to a list message to > send back to the list address by default. That address is easy enough > to ascertain with any modern mailing list software that follows the RFCs > and as the various list headers, such as List-Post:. That behavior > would be appropriate, since if you're replying to a message on a > mailing (discussion) list, you should be replying to the list and not > the original poster of the message (unless you were taking it off list, > in which case you'd need to override the default behavior. Just a note that there are a number of lists that ask to have no replies coming back to the list. They want original posts and summaries only. This would be like the sunmanagers and macmanagers lists. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <hoogendyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --------------- Erdös 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
