Off Topic: Possible mailing list problem - Reply-To field of mailing list is not setup

[Colin D Bennett]

Richard B. wrote on Monday 13 April 2009:
> There appears to be a problem with the mailing list, as the "Reply-To"
> part of the e-mail header is not setup as bazaar at lists.canonical.com.

It's not a problem, it is standard mailing list practice.  The messages 
include the 

  List-Post: <mailto:bazaar at lists.canonical.com>

header, which mail user agents should use for mailing list reply 
functionality.  For instance, KMail has the following choices when I press and 
hold the mouse button on the Reply button in the toolbar:
- Reply
- Reply to author
- Reply to all
- Reply to mailing list

Just clicking Reply defaults to sending the response only to the mailing list.

> This means that when you reply to a message-list e-mail, the To field
> is set to the sender of the message, so no-one else on the list gets
> to see other peoples replies.

I am curious what mail client you are using.  I've used Claws Mail and KMail 
and Thunderbird, and they all do the right thing and reply to the mailing list 
when I click reply.

See “‘Reply-To’ Munging Considered Harmful”
<http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html>.

Regards,
Colin
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