Steven Wayne wrote:
>
> Yes, I'm setting "Mail-Followup-To" to subscribed mailing lists in
> Mutt. I don't think that's Debian specific. I also don't expect a
> mailing list to follow anyone's list policies other than their
> own.
MFT isn't Debian-specific, per se, but "obey MFT or we'll say 'Please
don't mail me, I'm on the list' in every message we send you and Branden
will write nasty stuff about you on his website" is. :)
Debian can do that, because Mutt is the default MUA, and it is also one
of the few MUAs that support MFT.
This mailing list, on the other hand, has a strict policy of saying
"Please don't top post" in every reply, as required.
> I wasn't aware that Mail-Followup-To was non-standard, I'll
> reconfigure mutt to use Reply-to.
Make sure you keep using MFT on Debian lists, though (see above for the
consequences). In general, every mailing list on the internet does
something different wrt replies and headers, and everyone thinks
everyone else is wrong. It's a good rule of thumb to browse the
archives of a mailing list and watch what people do, to try to divine
the expected behaviour on the list, before posting.
For this list's policy, see:
http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/MailingListEtiquette
and in particular:
http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/MailingListEtiquette#head-528dd2a82d3bbadfa6e026bb6e50992d30a01a3a
> I only asked that replies go to the list and not me personally
> because I have procmail receipes that filter out things but I
> save mailing list emails first based on the X-BeenThere header.
Once you set reply-to, your request will be respected automatically by
(most of) the MUAs of the readers of this list.
> I seem to have got off on the wrong foot here, sorry.
No worries, welcome aboard.
- Marc
