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Re: lists and subscribe commands and the To: header



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On Wednesday, June 20 at 06:58 AM, quoth Omari Norman:
> According to the manual, it seems that the lists and subscribe 
> commands only examine the "To:" field of incoming mail. Is that 
> true?

Not in my experience. Where does it say that?

Generally, the lists and subscribe commands just add addresses to an 
internal list. This list is then consulted for several things. For 
example, it is used for the ~l pattern (which, according to the 
manual, matches "messages addressed to a known mailing list").

They're also used for things like 'list-reply', which is described in 
the documentation like this:

     Reply to the current or tagged message(s) by extracting any
     addresses which match the regular expressions given by the lists
     or subscribe commands, but also honor any Mail-Followup-To
     header(s) if the $honor_followup_to configuration variable is set.
     Using this when replying to messages posted to mailing lists helps
     avoid duplicate copies being sent to the author of the message you
     are replying to.

I don't see anything anywhere about only looking in the To: header.

~Kyle
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