[arch-multilib] Newbie Mailinglist Question
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but this is my first mailing list... I have just answered to topics in the list but my postings were treated as new topics. Sorry for that. How do I have to answer to get my postings into the existing thread ? Harvey -- Linux is like a wigwam: No Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside
Am 05.09.2010 12:02, schrieb Harvey:
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but this is my first mailing list...
I have just answered to topics in the list but my postings were treated as new topics. Sorry for that. How do I have to answer to get my postings into the existing thread ?
It's easy, you just have to hit the "Reply" button on the posting you want to reply to. Your email client does the rest.
Thomas,
It's easy, you just have to hit the "Reply" button on the posting you want to reply to. Your email client does the rest.
Thunderbird has a button 'Reply to list' which I did not see ;-) Harvey -- Linux is like a wigwam: No Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside
Am 05.09.2010 12:59, schrieb Harvey:
Thomas,
It's easy, you just have to hit the "Reply" button on the posting you want to reply to. Your email client does the rest.
Thunderbird has a button 'Reply to list' which I did not see ;-)
Harvey
That's not the one. "Reply to list" will reply to everyone: The reply-to address (which is the list address), the sender, all recipients an CCs. The usual "Reply" button will do just fine, too.
Thomas,
That's not the one. "Reply to list" will reply to everyone: The reply-to address (which is the list address), the sender, all recipients an CCs. The usual "Reply" button will do just fine, too.
The thunderbird button 'Reply to list' has three options: - 'Reply to list' (default) - 'Reply to all' - 'Reply' Hitting the 'Reply' button ends up in sending a private mail to the poster before. This was why my answers were not appearing on the list before. I guess they just vaporized in some spam filter ;-) I had a look at the mail headers to verify this. BTW, I post this answer by hitting 'Reply to list' and all seems well? Harvey -- Linux is like a wigwam: No Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside
On 05.09.2010 13:35, Harvey wrote:
BTW, I post this answer by hitting 'Reply to list' and all seems well?
Yeah everything's fine. I think the behaviour is different whether you are subscribed to the list or just getting CCed. -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}@server-speed.net
I think the behaviour is different whether you are subscribed to the list or just getting CCed.
That's the point. Never noticed this before, but the Button changes from 'Reply to list' to 'Reply to all' depending on the status of the previous mailer. Thomas gets 'Reply to list' Heiko and you get 'Reply to all' In this case I can't reply to the list directly. I have to reply to all and delete the mail address of the previous poster. Funny. Seems to be a thunderbird bug. I'll have to pay attention where I send my mails to. Harvey -- Linux is like a wigwam: No Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside
Am Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:35:23 +0200 schrieb Harvey <harv@gmx.de>:
Thomas,
That's not the one. "Reply to list" will reply to everyone: The reply-to address (which is the list address), the sender, all recipients an CCs. The usual "Reply" button will do just fine, too.
The thunderbird button 'Reply to list' has three options: - 'Reply to list' (default) - 'Reply to all' - 'Reply'
Hitting the 'Reply' button ends up in sending a private mail to the poster before. This was why my answers were not appearing on the list before. I guess they just vaporized in some spam filter ;-)
I had a look at the mail headers to verify this.
BTW, I post this answer by hitting 'Reply to list' and all seems well?
'Reply' is the one to use as Thomas already explained. Just set this as default and then just press the reply button. Heiko
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 13:44 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:35:23 +0200 schrieb Harvey <harv@gmx.de>:
Thomas,
That's not the one. "Reply to list" will reply to everyone: The reply-to address (which is the list address), the sender, all recipients an CCs. The usual "Reply" button will do just fine, too.
The thunderbird button 'Reply to list' has three options: - 'Reply to list' (default) - 'Reply to all' - 'Reply'
Hitting the 'Reply' button ends up in sending a private mail to the poster before. This was why my answers were not appearing on the list before. I guess they just vaporized in some spam filter ;-)
I had a look at the mail headers to verify this.
BTW, I post this answer by hitting 'Reply to list' and all seems well?
'Reply' is the one to use as Thomas already explained. Just set this as default and then just press the reply button.
Heiko
If you use 'reply' instead of 'reply-to-list' doesn't the list header get deleted from your mail? That messes up the reply settings in some clients (thunderbird and evolution).
If you use 'reply' instead of 'reply-to-list' doesn't the list header get deleted from your mail? That messes up the reply settings in some clients (thunderbird and evolution).
I'm not sure but I will investigate further while I post to this list. This is really annoying and confusing, but not only happening to me. See the wine-gecko thread... for the time being I'll have an open eye on where my postings are going. Harvey -- Linux is like a wigwam: No Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside
Am Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:42:00 +0800 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>:
If you use 'reply' instead of 'reply-to-list' doesn't the list header get deleted from your mail? That messes up the reply settings in some clients (thunderbird and evolution).
I don't know what Thunderbird is doing, because I'm not using it, but with every other e-mail client I know 'reply' is working the way it is supposed to, means the e-mails are sent to the mailing list and only to the mailing list. I mainly used kmail in the past and am currently using claws-mail, and I always answer to mailing lists with the 'reply' button. Just look at the headers of my e-mails in the mailing lists. I think they aren't messed up. So if the 'reply' button doesn't work correctly in Thunderbird I'd suggest filing a bug report to Mozilla upstream. Heiko
On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 15:24 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:42:00 +0800 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>:
If you use 'reply' instead of 'reply-to-list' doesn't the list header get deleted from your mail? That messes up the reply settings in some clients (thunderbird and evolution).
I don't know what Thunderbird is doing, because I'm not using it, but with every other e-mail client I know 'reply' is working the way it is supposed to, means the e-mails are sent to the mailing list and only to the mailing list.
I mainly used kmail in the past and am currently using claws-mail, and I always answer to mailing lists with the 'reply' button. Just look at the headers of my e-mails in the mailing lists. I think they aren't messed up.
So if the 'reply' button doesn't work correctly in Thunderbird I'd suggest filing a bug report to Mozilla upstream.
Heiko
Some mail clients (Thunderbird and Evolution that I know off) have a separate 'reply' button which replies to the sender (not to the list) and 'reply to list' button which replies to the list. What you're talking about is a generic 'reply' button which works as 'reply-to-list' when the email is from a mailing list. The problem with that is that actually replying personally to the sender you're replying to is made impossible from the main UI. Evolution's ML had a discussion on this sometime back. Some MLs fudge this (arch-multilib as well) by munging a 'reply-to'. This has the side-effect that if the sender has his own 'reply-to', its overwritten and thus recipients who want to contact the sender privately use the 'wrong' email address. I'm used to just using 'Ctrl-L' when reading mailing lists, anyway.
Usually I use "Reply to list" and it does the right thing, of course that checking that it is actually sending the reply to the list is always a good thing to do. As a side note, a bit off topic, you may want to delete the "Reply-to Address" so you don't get the "could not deliver mail to john doe" when sending replies or new messages to the list. -- Mauro Santos
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Florian Pritz
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Harvey
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Heiko Baums
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Mauro Santos
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Ng Oon-Ee
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Thomas Bächler