automaticly reply to mailinglist, not to the poster

Jonas Meurer

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Nov 1, 2001, 2:43:30 PM11/1/01

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Hey ho,
I've created own folders for every mailinglist. Now I wanna configure
mutt that I automaticly reply to the mailinglist, not to the poster when
I wanna answer to a mail which is in the folder 'mailinglist' or wich has
maili...@list.server.org in the to-address. How can I do this?

Bye
Jonas

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Han

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Nov 1, 2001, 1:12:34 PM11/1/01

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Aldus typte Jonas Meurer:

> Hey ho,

Hmm a Disney fan?

> I've created own folders for every mailinglist. Now I wanna configure
> mutt that I automaticly reply to the mailinglist, not to the poster
> when I wanna answer to a mail which is in the folder 'mailinglist' or
> wich has maili...@list.server.org in the to-address. How can I do
> this?

Use the l key for list-reply:

Little bit overcomplete but:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/dot-mutt/folderhooks

Groetjes, Han.
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Tim Hammerquist

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Nov 4, 2001, 4:41:07 AM11/4/01

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Me parece que Jonas Meurer <jo...@testsystem.server0.de> dijo:

> Hey ho,
> I've created own folders for every mailinglist. Now I wanna configure
> mutt that I automaticly reply to the mailinglist, not to the poster when
> I wanna answer to a mail which is in the folder 'mailinglist' or wich has
> maili...@list.server.org in the to-address. How can I do this?
>
> Bye
> Jonas

use the 'subscribe' command in your .muttrc, and hand it enough of your
ML's email address to make sure it matches. eg:

# -- from ~/.muttrc
# subscribed mailing lists
subscribe perl-unix-users
subscribe perl-win32-web
subscribe python-announce
subscribe w3m-dev-en

(Since I'm only in the English list for w3m, I can probably simply say
simply:
subscribe w3m
but it might also match w3m_...@hotmail.com, so I don't. =)

You could include the entire posting address, but I can never keep track
of all the domains ActiveState uses anymore; perl-unix-users more than
enough for that list.

Now, when you're reading a post from that mailing list, just hit 'L'
instead of 'r' to reply to the _list_ and not the originator.

Does this help?

Tim
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Jonas Meurer

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Nov 4, 2001, 9:22:14 AM11/4/01

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In article <slrn9ua3m...@vegeta.ath.cx>, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> use the 'subscribe' command in your .muttrc, and hand it enough of your
> ML's email address to make sure it matches. eg:
> # -- from ~/.muttrc
> # subscribed mailing lists
> subscribe perl-unix-users
> subscribe perl-win32-web
> subscribe python-announce
> subscribe w3m-dev-en

> Now, when you're reading a post from that mailing list, just hit 'L'
> instead of 'r' to reply to the _list_ and not the originator.
> Does this help?

Oh yea, this helps. Thanks a lot.

Cyril Humbert

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Nov 5, 2001, 10:46:55 AM11/5/01

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Use `L' (list-reply) instead of `r'.

If you have one folder per list, you might also want to
change `index-format' to see the author name instead
of the name of the list (look at `%F' in the manual).
For example :

set index_format="%4C %Z %[%b %d] %-15.15F (%4c) %s"
^