[Haskell-cafe] Silly mail client

[Chris Eidhof]

One thing I did was replacing the "Reply" button in my toolbar with  
"Reply All". The only problem is that I always use Cmd+R instead of  
clicking a button, but I'm at least a little bit closer.

-chris

On 6-mei-2007, at 15:21, ls-haskell-developer-2006 at m-e-leypold.de wrote:

>
> Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> writes:
>
>> OK, this is hacking me off now... Does ANYBODY know how I can  
>> convince
>> Thunderbird to send replies to Haskell Cafe rather than sending them
>> to the original poster? This is really becoming tiresome...
>
> My best approach to that has been to explicitely rewrite the Reply-To
> with procmail when the mail arrives at my place. The problem is, that
> the 'List-Id' tag will only work, if all clients stick to the implied
> rules (which they don't) and if you don't have a MTA or mailbox
> storage (like cyrus) which eliminates duplicates (then answers copied
> to you arrive earlier, leading to elimination of the copy with the
> List-Id tag). After long and careful study I've come to the conclusion
> that every magic based on headers inserted by the mailing list and
> based on all participants mail clients sticking to some rules won't
> work.
>
> Originally, as I understand it, the Mail-Followup-To field had been
> intended to indicate an address for "reply to list". But most mail
> clients don't support it. I'm not sure wether Thunderbird supports it,
> but I've heard a "reply all" would reply to the address indicated in
> Mail-Followup-To. The problem is anyway (a) Haskell Cafe does not
> provide the field and (b) duplicate elimination would quite possibly
> kick the wrong mail copy (that which has Mail-Followup-To set).
>
> So my suggestion:
>
>  1) Use procmail
>  2) Detect haskell-cafe in the headers
>  3) Add the List-Id and Mail-Followup-To at you side.
>
>  4) If you have client which doesn't respect Mail-Followup-To (try
>     "reply all"), then also add a Reply-To header.
>
> (4) means, if you wan't to reply by mail to the individual author,
>     you'll have to edit the receiver address by hand.
>
> Regards -- Markus
>
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