On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:53:19AM -0700, David Haughton wrote: > > Incoming from Cheryl Homiak: > > > I agree that it's irritating to get duplicate messages. > > However, it's > > > often not that the person deliberately did a cc. At least > > in Pine, I > > > often > > > > The usual reply to this is submit a bug report. If it came > > from a list, the reply should go to the list. If you want to > > reply to the author, that should take manual intervention. > > In the meantime, switch to something that does it right, mutt for one. > > Most email clients will act this way (i.e. Thunderbird, Pine, Outlook*) > because the person that sent the email to the list is in the "From" field > and I don't see the "Reply-To" field being set by the listserv. Some > listservs will also rewrite the "From" so that even clients that ignore the > "Reply-To" will reply to the list. It will then appear something like "From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of so-and-so". How does mutt know to > reply to the email address in the "To" field and not the "From" field > without user intervention?
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