Sending to the group instead of the sender

[Cecil Westerhof]

When I reply in some mailinglists (not this one), the reply goes to the sender. I did not find a way to send it to the list without changing the address. Is this possible?


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Cecil Westerhof

[Jeff Grossman]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Cecil Westerhof <cldwes...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I reply in some mailinglists (not this one), the reply goes to the sender. I did not find a way to send it to the list without changing the address. Is this possible?

That setting is setup from the person running the list.  Sometimes they have it setup to reply to the list and other times it is setup to reply to the sender.

Jeff 

[Andy]

>> When I reply in some mailinglists (not this one), the reply goes to the
>> sender. I did not find a way to send it to the list without changing the
>> address. Is this possible?
>>
>
> That setting is setup from the person running the list. Sometimes they have
> it setup to reply to the list and other times it is setup to reply to the
> sender.

That's correct. There is a "Reply-To:" line in the (normally hidden)
headers that affects this, and some email lists have it configured
differently.

When you have one of those, usually by doing a "Reply All", it will
get a reply to go to the list. (But don't get into the habit of using
"Reply All" indiscriminately ... it can cause big problems if used
where you didn't want it!)

Andy

[Cecil Westerhof]

2012/9/7 Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com>

I will ask the group about it.

 In google mail I only have reply and forward. Am I missing something? (I thought that I had reply all in the past, but I do not have it. Is this changed?)

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Cecil Westerhof

[Zack (Doc)]

You'll only see Reply on this message as there is only one name in the option to reply to.  Reply all says to reply to the sender as well as everyone on the To/CC lines.  The only name on the To line of this e-mail is the group, and because of the reply-to, that's the name on a reply.  While you can see my e-mail above, it's not an option for you to "reply to".

If necessary, you can always copy and paste it into the sending lines.  If you're in a group that does not "reply-to" the list, then reply-all should be an option to include the original sender and the list.

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[Cecil Westerhof]

2012/9/7 Zack (Doc) <za...@tnan.net>

You'll only see Reply on this message as there is only one name in the option to reply to.  Reply all says to reply to the sender as well as everyone on the To/CC lines.  The only name on the To line of this e-mail is the group, and because of the reply-to, that's the name on a reply.  While you can see my e-mail above, it's not an option for you to "reply to".

If necessary, you can always copy and paste it into the sending lines.  If you're in a group that does not "reply-to" the list, then reply-all should be an option to include the original sender and the list.

But it is not. That is what I find strange. I can only reply and forward. Not reply-all. So I do a reply, remove the sender and fill in the mailing list.

What I find strange that a so much used client as google mail does not have an option reply to list. Reply-all (when it would be there) is a bad short cut. Then the sender gets every email twice. This happened a lot in the past to me and I always found it annoying.
 

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Cecil Westerhof

[Andy]

> What I find strange that a so much used client as google mail does not have
> an option reply to list.

Some email lists come across to you without evidence that it is
actually an email list. Messages arrive that appear to be
individually sent to you from the sender. In that case, Gmail has
none of the usual hints that it was an email list, so there is no
option to reply to the list.

I am subscribed to one or two lists like that. They are uncommon.

Andy

[Marko Vukovic]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What I find strange that a so much used client as google mail does not have
>> an option reply to list.
>
> Some email lists come across to you without evidence that it is
> actually an email list. Messages arrive that appear to be
> individually sent to you from the sender. In that case, Gmail has
> none of the usual hints that it was an email list, so there is no
> option to reply to the list.

Absolutely. It is up to the list admin to configure their list
software correctly, not up to the mail client to work around it.

Cecil, you need to speed to the list owner(s) and ask them to
configure the appropriate Reply-To header.


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Marko