Re: how to reply to mailing list address by default?
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:59:49AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2005-07-21, phyrster <phyrster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I reply mutt's mailing list messages, I often forgot to make
> > To: address as that of the list by default.
> >
> > Some of the replies go to the individual user's mailbox. Is there a way to
> > prompt me to modify To: when posting messages? or Can mutt be configured to
> > do the switch automatically?
>
> If you have the address of the mailing list in one of your
> 'subscribe' commands, e.g.,
>
> subscribe mutt-users
>
> then you can (and should) reply to the list with the list-reply
> command, bound to 'L' by default. See the mutt manual:
I do that with some lists, but for some others I don't like the way I
have to adapt to some of the minor changes that arise (e.g. different
information in the index display, having to use list commands). For
those lists, I add a "Mail-Followup-To" header to the message when it
arrives, then I can just use group-reply and mutt will do the right
thing. (This requires "set honor_followup_to=yes")
Fortunately, the mutt-users list supplies that header already, so no
local munging of arriving messages is necessary.
mm