[MlMt] Feature request: reply to list/alias

[Ben Beuchler]

On Mar 26, 2013 4:21 AM, "Benny Kjær Nielsen" <mailinglist at freron.com>
wrote:
>
> On 25 Mar 2013, at 20:49, Ben Beuchler wrote:
>>
>> In Mutt I can define a list of aliases of which I am a member. I can
>> then choose to do a normal reply (r), reply-all (g), or reply-list (L)
>> which sends the reply directly to the alias. Note that I'm not
>> talking about mailing lists, which should be responsible for correctly
>> setting the reply-to header.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by “alias”.

An address that is expanded internally within the mail server to a list of
addresses. It does this without using external mailing list software.

> How is this address identified among the message headers?

That's the problem; the only way to identify them is if you know that the
To: address is an alias. Some mail servers, like postfix, add an
x-original-to header indicating the alias address, but that's not
consistently implemented. Ideally, of course, the sender would set a
reply-to of the alias address, but that will never happen.

> MailMate has a replyList: action (relatively recently added). Using
custom key bindings you can bind this to L, but since you state that you
are not talking about mailing lists then I'm not sure this is what you want?

What does this feature use to figure out who to reply to?

-Ben
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