On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:53:49PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Should we really have a Mail-Followup-To header?
The Mail-Followup-To header appears in all mails from you to the list, in all mails from Ward and in one fourth of the mails from Stefan. The mails I got from you which did not go via the list do not have the header.
Indeed.
I believe it is what makes my mutt reply command send messages only to the list and never to the original poster - which hasn't happened before. For replying to the list there's an awesome list-reply command.
Is the intent of Mail-Followup-To the same as for Reply-To - to help people with non-list-aware mailers to always send messages to the list? In that case I would like to ask that it is removed, elitist as that may seem.
If instead my mutt config is just all broken please let me know. (But it has worked very well so far.)
Unfortunately, it seems that your mailer (or a filter on your side) inserts the Mail-Followup-To header in the mails you receive and in the mails you send...
Quite right. Mutt adds it by default for subscribed lists. Good discussion at http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html and it's actually not a bad thing. Also it was not the cause of my mistake.
I noticed there was a Reply-To header (with the list address) in Andreas' message (but not in messages from others) and that's what steered me and mutt off track.
Sorry for the noise.
//Peter