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

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

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

On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 13:44 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote:

Am Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:35:23 +0200 schrieb Harvey :

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Thomas,

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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).

Am Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:42:00 +0800 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee :

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

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