Re: Mailing list reply

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, October  5 at 10:03 AM, quoth Breen Mullins:
> Where does mutt get the address for a mailing list reply?
>
> I've just been chided for replying twice to a mailing list, where
> I used the list-reply function.

Heh. That may actually be the fault of the mailing list for sending 
conflicting email.

> Replies went to 'listname@xxxxxxxxxxxx' and to
> 'listname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' - and I can't see where the mail. part
> comes from. Is it from the List-Id header?

According to the documentation:

     list-reply (default: L)

     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.

The short version is that mutt scans all relevant headers for 
addresses that you have told it are mailing list addresses.

> If so, how do I suppress that?

How are you specifying in your muttrc that you're subscribed to that 
list? If you're doing it like this:

     subscribe listname@

Then you may be being too general (that subscribe line matches both 
listname@xxxxxxxxxxxx and listname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, so if mutt sees 
both of those available in your message, it will reply to both of 
them). Try this:

     subscribe '^listname@listname\.com$'

That way only the one address matches, so it'll only be sent to the 
one that matched.

It's also possible that your mailing list is doing something stupid 
like adding a mail-followup-to header, in which case what you need to 
do is make sure that your subscribe line specifies the address that 
that mailing list is putting in the mail-followup-to header (thus 
avoiding duplicates).

~Kyle
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