Fwd: Bug#263516: mutt: list-reply using List-Post causes duplicate messages
hi, we received this at the Debian mutt BTS. personally I feel it *is*
a list misconfiguration and that the List-Post header should be
changed, but I'm asking for some comments about it here.
thanks,
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From: Andrew Pimlott <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Andrew Pimlott <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 263516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:31:36 -0400
Subject: Bug#263516: mutt: list-reply using List-Post causes duplicate messages
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i
Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.6-20040722+1
Severity: normal
I recently hit 'L'ist-reply on a message from a mailing list, saw in the
To field two forms of the list address. Investigating, I found that the
message I replied to had the following headers:
To: darcs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
List-Post: <mailto:darcs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
My mutt configuration has
lists darcs-devel@
So 'L'ist-reply replied to both the To and List-Post addresses.
Many lists are aliased by multiple addresses, so I don't think this case
can be written off as a list misconfiguration. However, I don't know
how to resolve it. One idea would be to note that both addresses are
matched by the same lists entry, but I'm not sure that is reliable in
general.
Supporting the List-Post header sounds admirable, but the overlap with
the existing mailing list features is confusing. Moreover, it is less
powerful than the existing features, since it cannot help with a message
cross-posted to multiple lists (there will be only one List-Post
header). Maybe List-Post should only be used if no mailing lists are
found via the lists and subscribe features?
Andrew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.35-1woody3 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgnutls10 1.0.4-7 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libidn11 0.4.1-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libncursesw5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsasl2 2.1.19-1 Authentication abstraction library
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