Re: Mail-Followup-To interaction with gnus-summary-followup

[prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)]

Paul J Collins <sneakums@sto-kerrig.org> writes:
> I'm unsure of the semantics of Mail-Followup-To,

<URL:http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html>

> I'm on a mailing list that I filter into a separate group, and one of
> the posters has a Mail-Followup-To header with the list's address in
> it.  I had already set the group's parameters for to-list and
> to-address to the address of list.

I think having to-address makes to-list unnecessary.

> When I type `f' to follow up to this person's posts, my new message is
> given a To field with the value of to-address, and a Cc field with the
> value of the original poster's Mail-Followup-To.

What is the value of message-use-followup-to?

> I want to disable this behaviour.  Honouring Mail-Followup-To in the
> case where the mail is already going to that address doesn't make
> much sense to me.

I think to-address is intended for a world without Mail-Followup-To,
and vice versa.  If the message you're following up to already tells
you where the followup should go, you don't need to-address.  Since
you can edit the addresses in the message either way, I think it's
best to prefer Mail-Followup-To (per-message, more specific) over
to-address (per-group, more general).  So message.el should be changed
around 19 lines into message-get-reply-headers:
    (if (or (not wide)
	    to-address)
should be:
    (if (and (not mft)
             (or (not wide)
                 to-address))

You can blame me for this, BTW.  I wrote the MFT code, but didn't
quite understand to-address at the time, I guess.


paul