[Users] When replying, how is the To address chosen?

Ralf Mardorf kde.lists at yahoo.com
Wed May 13 13:21:48 CEST 2020


On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 11:55 +0100, Adrian wrote:
> So my reply is going to the Sender: and not the From: address

My apologies, I misunderstood you first.

This is the main pro/con thingy of the mailing-list reply approaches.
For you it's a con, while in general it could be considered a pro.

In your case, you need to reply to all, what might be annoying for some
receivers, if they either receive duplicated messages or just one
message, with missing mailing-list (Google Groups???) headers.

It is an advantage for e.g. open mailing lists, where some people aren't
subscribed to the mailing list or for developer mailing lists, if it's
wanted to send to the list and individuals at the same time. _But_ it's
smarter if the mailing list settings do not override "Reply-To" headers,
so the original posters could decide to add a "Reply-To" header or not,
to avoid unwanted behaviour, such as receiving duplicated emails.



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