[Openstack] Default reply to behavior for mailing list

Johannes Erdfelt johannes at erdfelt.com
Tue Jul 31 18:09:48 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012, Bhuvaneswaran A <bhuvan at apache.org> wrote:
> If a subscriber reply to a mailing list message, it's sent to the
> author only. Each subscriber should use "Reply to All" every time, to
> post a reply to mailing list.
> 
> Can you please configure the mailing list and set reply-to header as
> mailing list address, openstack at lists.launchpad.net. With this setup,
> if the user click "reply" in his email client, the message is sent to
> mailing list, instead of the author.

As a counter-point, I'd prefer to keep the list as it is and *not* munge
Reply-To.

Since Chip summarizes it better than I can, I'll link to his article
'"Reply-To" Munging Considered Harmful':

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

JE





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