Mutt and Mail-Followup-To

From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: May 31, 2008, 06:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20080531062605.GA3029@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <20080531024027.GB5907@leksak.fem-net>

Stephan Beyer wrote (2008-05-31 04:40 +0200):

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> Oh, it was not meant to be rude. In fact, I didn't even knew that my
> mutt generates it. ;) So I deactivated it and I hope it helps you to
> enjoy your Caipirinha.
> 
> Btw, I'm confused whether I should use "List reply" (which only
> replies to git@vger.kernel.org) or "Reply to all" (which I used now).
> While on some other mailinglists it is discouraged to "reply to all",
> it seems to be the common case here.

Mutt's logic is pretty complicated on this. If followup_to=yes, then Mutt generates M-F-T field and puts all the addresses gathered from To and CC fields there (minus user's own). In addition to that, if there's a mailing list address which is in users's "subscribe" list Mutt will not add users's own address to the M-F-T. If the list address is only in "lists" list, Mutt will add users's own address. The intention is to prevent duplicates when user is a subscriber, and to get private replies if user is not a subscriber.

The logic is so complicated and not very well supported so it doesn't work well anyway. I think the best thing to do is:

  set followup_to=no
  set honor_followup_to=ask-no

One just has to find out if the list in question favours "replies to all" (the 'g' key in Mutt) or replies to the list only ('L' in Mutt).