[sdiy] Reply to sender not list

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Seb Francis <seb at burnit.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Reply to sender not list
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:17:08 +0100
Message-ID: <46159184.2070208 at burnit.co.uk>

Seb,

> I didn't want to get into a big discussion about it - I was only asking 
> for it to go back to the way it was before.  This way worked much better 
> - you can hit Reply to send to sender and Reply-To-All to send to list.  
> Otherwise it's a manual process to send an email to the sender.
> 
> I've been through all this recently with another mailing list I run and 
> for people using Outlook Express (yes there are some unfortunately!) 
> it's quite hard to reply to sender only when the list is set up like 
> this since OE doesn't readily show the email address of the sender.
> 
> Magnus Danielson wrote:
> > For the old list, my default behaviour was to respond to the list, and that is
> > exactly how I want it.
> Well then you shouldn't care if the list goes back to working in the way 
> it previously did then!
> 
> > What have happend is that Mailman triggers a different
> > behaviour in your client. That is what you should fix to fit your needs.
> >   
> What is happening now is that Mailman is adding a Reply-To field to all 
> posts.  You're surely not saying I should configure my email client to 
> ignore Reply-To fields?

With those specifics in mind, going back to not setting Reply-To seems fair
enought.

I'm not totally reliable tonight, as I am rebuilding the studio almost from
scratch, or rather, it would make as much difference if I did do it from
scratch. My server seems to handle the mess pretty well. My judgement in email
list management aspects is dodgy tonight. I guess it is a sacrifice we would
have to live with.

Cheers,
Magnus - just about to go down and put the other speaker in place (phew!)