![]() The latter two features must be configured via hidden preferences: If you tell Thunderbird which mailing lists set Reply-To, it will automatically set Mail-Reply-To when writing to one of these lists.If you tell Thunderbird which mailing lists you are subscribed to, it will automatically set Mail-Followup-To when writing to one of these lists.This works since Thunderbird-1.5 with a minor bug fixed in Thunderbird-3.0-beta1. If you reply-to-all and Mail-Followup-To is set in the original message, Thunderbird uses it instead of (MRT or Reply-To or From)+To+Cc.If you reply-to-author and Mail-Reply-To is set in the original message, Thunderbird uses it instead of Reply-To or From.This part is still missing, please read Dan Bernstein's Mail-Followup-To proposal in the meantime.įortunately, Thunderbird can do all these things automatically for you: However, this has some disadvantages: It breaks the original meaning of reply-to-author and if the author is not subscribed, he will not receive replies to his messages. If users then use reply-to-author instead of reply-to-all, the author will never get duplicates. One directly because he's in his message's From header and one via the mailing list.Īs a widespread workaround, some mailing lists set the Reply-To header of all messages to the mailing list. If you get a mail via a mailing list and you reply-to-all, then the author will get two copies of your message if he's subscribed to the list. Additionally it sets the new message's Cc header to the list of all recipients (To+Cc) of the original message, probably excluding your own address.Īll these things work pretty well so far, but problems arise with mailing lists: If you reply-to-all, your MUA creates a new message and sets the To header like above. This way the original message's author can tell you to reply to another address if he wants to get replies there. If the original message contains a Reply-To header, your MUA uses its content instead of From. ![]() If you reply-to-author, your MUA creates a new message and sets the To header to the original message's From header. In Thunderbird they are just called "Reply" and "Reply all". MUAs have (at least) two reply functions: reply-to-author and reply-to-all.
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