[OSM-talk] OSM Mailing List Reply To Header

[Christoph Boehme]

Matt Williams wrote:
> 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.

Sylpheed Claws can reply to list as well and Thunderbird has an add-on 
which adds the command [1].

Cheers
Christoph

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455

> 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
> 
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