reply to on mailing list

reply to on mailing list

[Dick Hoogendijk]

I get lots of E-mail from mailing lists. I read those with nnimap.
Whenever I hit either r (R) of f (F) I compose a new mail but the
"To:" is mostly wrong. Almost everytime the original sender is filled
in and a Cc is made for the list. example:

To:poster@site.org
Cc:desktop-os@opensolaris.org
Subject:blablabla..

Most people want to read their mail only on the list and are not fond
of private e-mail. So I change the To: and Cc: by hand now but that
seems not the way to do it.

Am I overlooking something? Is it possible to set some kind of default
"To: address" for a mailgroup? Or do I use some special "key"?

It's annoying the way it is now.

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Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE
++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 02/07 ++

Re: reply to on mailing list

[David Z Maze]

Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> writes:

> Most people want to read their mail only on the list and are not fond
> of private e-mail. So I change the To: and Cc: by hand now but that
> seems not the way to do it.
>
> Am I overlooking something? Is it possible to set some kind of default
> "To: address" for a mailgroup? Or do I use some special "key"?

Go to the group line in the group buffer.  Press 'G c'.  In the
resulting customize buffer, check "To Address:" and fill in the mailing
list's address, then press the "[done]" button at the top of the page.
There are lots of other things you can set here on a per-group basis.

  --dzm

Re: reply to on mailing list

[Robert D. Crawford]

Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> writes:

> I get lots of E-mail from mailing lists. I read those with nnimap.
> Whenever I hit either r (R) of f (F) I compose a new mail but the
> "To:" is mostly wrong. Almost everytime the original sender is filled
> in and a Cc is made for the list. example:
>
> To:poster@site.org
> Cc:desktop-os@opensolaris.org
> Subject:blablabla..
>
> Most people want to read their mail only on the list and are not fond
> of private e-mail. So I change the To: and Cc: by hand now but that
> seems not the way to do it.
>
> Am I overlooking something? Is it possible to set some kind of default
> "To: address" for a mailgroup? Or do I use some special "key"?
>
> It's annoying the way it is now.

The following example from my .gnus.el file might be helpful.  I am not
sure if using nnimap will change any of this as I do not use it.  I
can't see how it would make a difference.

(setq gnus-parameters
      '(("mail\\.emacspeak"
	 (to-address . "emacspeak@cs.vassar.edu"))
	("mail\\.homeroast-list"
	 (posting-style
 	  (address "robdcraw@gmail.com")
 	  (user-mail-address "robdcraw@gmail.com")
	  (signature-file "~/.signature-gmail")))
	("mail\\.thinkpad-list"
	 (to-address . "linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org")
	 (posting-style
 	  (address "robdcraw@gmail.com")
 	  (user-mail-address "robdcraw@gmail.com")
	  (signature-file "~/.signature-gmail")))))

I hope this helps,
rdc
-- 
Robert D. Crawford                                      rdc1x@comcast.net

And that's the way it is...
		-- Walter Cronkite