[OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

[Matt Williams]

2009/9/3 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/9/3 Patrick Petschge <osm at petschge.de>:
>> Right. Any sane mail client does that. Based on the list-header, without
>
> Virtually no mail client does this. Right, wrong or indifferent it's
> how things are and I highly doubt anyone new to mailing lists would
> have such a client.

I know that at least KMail has this feature. If there's a list-id in
the header it will offer you a 'Reply to all', 'Reply to author' and
'Reply to list' option and default to the latter. Given this, it works
fine on all these OSM mailing lists.

However, GMail doesn't which is frankly stupid and annoying.
Especially since it default to replying to _just_ the author of the
email and not the list at all.

So, really, this is a problem with the email clients being stupid and
the mailing list seems to be set up correctly. The email header's
don't have a 'reply-to' field so it seems that GMail defaults to
replying to the address in the 'From' field. Even when there's
obviously List headers:

Precedence: list
List-Id: OpenStreetMap user discussion <talk.openstreetmap.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk>,
	<mailto:talk-request at openstreetmap.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk>
List-Post: <mailto:talk at openstreetmap.org>
List-Help: <mailto:talk-request at openstreetmap.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk>,
	<mailto:talk-request at openstreetmap.org?subject=subscribe>

(In fact it happened when sending this email that GMail defaulted to
sending it to just John and I forgot to change it. This is my second
try. This needs a bug report to GMail)

Regards,
Matt Williams
http://milliams.com