Re: Mailing list changes

From: Peter Bortas <bortas_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:40:56 +0100
Message-ID: <CA+NK+ADRfqGzTdtKrha_afwq4a5Kd2-5Z=XCZ=gQE1YatC1etA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:10 PM,  <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl> wrote:
>
>> On 2018-03-13, at 14:01, Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote:
>>
>>>> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.4.0/releasenotes/
>>>> and it's called "improvement"....
>>> I can verify that going to Tools -> Alternatives -> Advanced -> Configuration editor and setting the variable mail.override_list_reply_to to false will fix this for cbm-hackers, likely also other mailing lists.
>>> How other email clients are doing this, and what should be desired behavior is beyond me, but as Thunderbird recently introduced this change must mean practises are about to change.
>>
>> Probably started by some (web-)Client that got it wrong but got popular and lots of people are now used to it and expect it everywhere.
>>
>> At least that's how it happens way too often.
>
> Yeah... I can't imagine how on Mother Earth _ignoring_ a fully established functional header can be done by default and called improvement.

I can, and now I want this is my client. Reply-to munging on mailing
lists is considered harmful. Ignoring the Reply-To header if the mail
also has a list header sounds like the way of least harm.

Regards,
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Peter Bortas
Received on 2018-03-14 22:50:51

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