[Discuss] GMail doesn't recognize mailing lists

Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg at freephile.com
Sat Nov 5 23:27:42 EDT 2011


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> On 11/03/2011 12:30 AM, Daniel C. wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> > <greg at freephile.com> wrote:
> >> Why doesn't GMail reply to list by default?! Does this lack of feature
> bug
> >> you?
> > Gmail is behaving correctly.  The reply-to header is set by the
> > mailing list administrator, and should be obeyed by the mail client.
> > If you want this list to reply to list by default, feel free to argue
> > your case here but be warned that this topic is almost always a sticky
> > morass of flames, dogma and other unpleasantness.
> No, that is not what Greg is talking about.
> For instance on Thunderbird, when I get email from a listserv, I have an
> extra "reply list" button. I also know that claws has this feature also.
> The client detects the email is from a listserv and sets up that buttoin
> automatically. it has nothing to do with how the list admin sets the
> reply header.
>
>
Exactly

-- Greg



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