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mrball
Sep 30, 2010, 10:38:19 AM9/30/10
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I am a member of many technical mailing lists, many of which use
Mailman software, in both my personal gmail account and my company's
Google Apps account. I have filters which apply Tags to messages in
these mailing lists so that it is very neatly organized. when I "Show
Details" for these messages, it usually shows the "Mailing List"
status, showing which mailing list originated the email, so Gmail can
obviously detect that it is a mailing list email.
When I reply to one of these mailing list emails, I must hit reply-to-
all to ensure that the reply is addressed to the mailing list and not
just the original author (depends upon mailing list configuration as
well). I used to use mutt (and I miss it!) There was a "List-Reply"
function which functioned to force the reply to the mailing list, but
also honored any FollowUp-To that the sender might have set.
Since Gmail can reliably detect that the message is from a mailing
list, it should be trivial to determine that a "Reply to Mailing List"
link can be added as one of the Reply options. In the specific case
of Mailman mailing lists, there is a List-Post header which gives the
email address to send replies to the mailing list.
As a side note, I would also like to be able to set "Show Details" by
default for all messages so that I can see the "Signed-By" status for
those emails that are DKIM signed.
Mailman software, in both my personal gmail account and my company's
Google Apps account. I have filters which apply Tags to messages in
these mailing lists so that it is very neatly organized. when I "Show
Details" for these messages, it usually shows the "Mailing List"
status, showing which mailing list originated the email, so Gmail can
obviously detect that it is a mailing list email.
When I reply to one of these mailing list emails, I must hit reply-to-
all to ensure that the reply is addressed to the mailing list and not
just the original author (depends upon mailing list configuration as
well). I used to use mutt (and I miss it!) There was a "List-Reply"
function which functioned to force the reply to the mailing list, but
also honored any FollowUp-To that the sender might have set.
Since Gmail can reliably detect that the message is from a mailing
list, it should be trivial to determine that a "Reply to Mailing List"
link can be added as one of the Reply options. In the specific case
of Mailman mailing lists, there is a List-Post header which gives the
email address to send replies to the mailing list.
As a side note, I would also like to be able to set "Show Details" by
default for all messages so that I can see the "Signed-By" status for
those emails that are DKIM signed.
luskwater
Nov 3, 2010, 3:20:43 PM11/3/10
to Suggest a Labs feature
Yes, let me second the request. Even Google Groups have this problem,
so it is not just Mailman.
On Sep 30, 10:38 am, mrball wrote:
> I am a member of many technicalmailinglists, many of which use
> all to ensure that the reply is addressed to themailinglistand not
> just the original author (depends uponmailinglistconfiguration as
so it is not just Mailman.
On Sep 30, 10:38 am, mrball wrote:
> I am a member of many technicalmailinglists, many of which use
> Mailman software, in both my personal gmail account and my company's
> Google Apps account. I have filters which apply Tags to messages in
> thesemailinglists so that it is very neatly organized. when I "Show
> Google Apps account. I have filters which apply Tags to messages in
> Details" for these messages, it usually shows the "MailingList"
> status, showing whichmailinglistoriginated the email, so Gmail can
> obviously detect that it is amailinglistemail.
>
> When I reply to one of thesemailinglistemails, I must hit reply-to-
>
> all to ensure that the reply is addressed to themailinglistand not
> just the original author (depends uponmailinglistconfiguration as
> well). I used to use mutt (and I miss it!) There was a "List-Reply"
> function which functioned to force the reply to themailinglist, but
> also honored any FollowUp-To that the sender might have set.
>
> Since Gmail can reliably detect that the message is from amailinglist, it should be trivial to determine that a "Reply toMailingList"
>
> link can be added as one of the Reply options. In the specific case
> of Mailmanmailinglists, there is aList-Post header which gives the
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