[TriLUG] TriLUG ReplyTo

[Aaron S. Joyner]

If you login to Mailman, and look at the bottom of the User's 
preferences page, you will see a section entitled "Avoid duplicate 
copies of messages?"  It does precisely what it's description says: 
"When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list 
message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list. 
Select Yes to avoid receiving copies from the mailing list; select No to 
receive copies."

It's unlikely that anyone is receiving duplicate copies of messages 
unless they explicitly choose to.  I believe by default, for new members 
to the TriLUG list, that option is set to Yes.  Perhaps Tanner or one of 
the other admins can clarify that (General page, Additional Settings, 
Filter out duplicate messages to list members).

The original source of the user's name being in the headers is if they 
have a Reply-to field set by their email client.  If so, Mailman will 
only add to that, not strip out the existing reply-to(s) from the 
message.  This behavior is also configurable at the Mailman general 
options page, although given the situation I'd almost guarantee that 
it's not set to strip additional Reply-to headers, or we wouldn't be 
having this discussion.  :)

Aaron S. Joyner


Mike M wrote:

>On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:01:52PM -0700, Turnpike Man wrote:
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>>Reply-to: jim at neuse.net, Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>><trilug at trilug.org> 
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>There it is.  
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>It's a preference of the sender.  Not to worry unless the sender
>complains about getting 2 copies.
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>Sometimes broken mail clients send list replies to the list and the
>individual.  Sometimes people misuse their mail clients with the
>same result.  Neither of these cases exist here.
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