Change "Reply-to: Address" on a per message basis?
Cy Burnot
message" basis?
I'm on a mailing list that, by default, sends replies to the OP of the
message and discourages "conversations". I'm also on another mailing
list whose members are a subset of the first, where discussions are
encouraged.
I'd like to be able to post to the first one with replies going to the
second one.
Is this doable w/o having to change account settings?
Thanks.
EE
dropmarker at the end of that line. The identity has to be present
already, though.
Ron Hunter
Cy Burnot
If I do that, won't the email be rejected by the first mailing list
because it's coming from an address that is not that of a subscriber?
David E. Ross
Both Burnot and EE do not appear to understand the question.
A user can set a From address and also a Reply To address for an
account. The From address is also used as the Reply To address if the
latter is blank.
The question is whether the Reply To address can be changed "on the fly"
without changing the From address. (Although I understand the question,
I do not know the answer.)
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>
On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages
posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent
because of spam from that source.
Cy Burnot
> You can edit the To: (or newsgroup:) line, AFAIK.
Are you suggesting that the reader who wants to reply should change the
To address of his reply? That's too sophisticated for the people on this
list.
How do I know that? Well, I suggested that people could tell which list
a message was coming from by looking at the Subject line and seeing what
it said in square brackets (I gave specific examples), and got an email
reply saying that that was too subtle. :-)
Kid you not!!
Thanks.
Cy Burnot
> On 9/4/11 9:38 AM, Cy Burnot wrote:
>> Is there any way to change the Reply-To: Address setting on a "per
>> message" basis?
>>
>> I'm on a mailing list that, by default, sends replies to the OP of the
>> message and discourages "conversations". I'm also on another mailing
>> list whose members are a subset of the first, where discussions are
>> encouraged.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to post to the first one with replies going to the
>> second one.
>>
>> Is this doable w/o having to change account settings?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Both Burnot and EE do not appear to understand the question.
As OP, I do believe that I understand the question. :-)
> A user can set a From address and also a Reply To address for an
> account. The From address is also used as the Reply To address if the
> latter is blank.
Understood.
> The question is whether the Reply To address can be changed "on the fly"
> without changing the From address.
Yes, exactly.
> (Although I understand the question, I do not know the answer.)
Awwww. :-)
Thanks for the clarification.
Is there a way to edit the "source" of the current message being
written? I could go in and add (or fill in) a Reply-to: header line if
there were.
David E. Ross
> I previoously wrote [also in part]:
>>
>> Both Burnot and EE do not appear to understand the question.
>
> As OP, I do believe that I understand the question. :-)
Oops! I meant Hunt and EE.
David E. Ross
You have to go into the account settings and change the Reply-to Address
area BEFORE starting to compose your message. Then, you have to
remember to clear that area (or restore its prior address) after you
send the message.
The Mnenhy extension might provide more flexibility. I'm not really
sure about that, but it does give users some capabilities to set and
change message headers. I've never used those capabilities. See
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mnenhy/>.
Chris Ilias
There are two ways:
* When composing a message, click on the empty header under "To". You
can then choose which header you want to set. One of them is "Reply-To".
Screencast: <http://ilias.ca/screencasts/tb-replyto1.webm> [377K]
* If it is a Reply-To header you set often, you can create another
identity for that account with the different Reply-To header.
See
<http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/configuring-email-aliases#w_using-identities-to-specify-a-reply-to-address>
When composing a message, just click on the "From" header, and a
drop-down will appear with all your identities for you to pick from.
Screencast: <http://ilias.ca/screencasts/tb-replyto2.webm> [1.8M]
--
Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
Mailing list/Newsgroup moderator
Cy Burnot
> On 9/4/11 10:49 AM, Cy Burnot wrote [in part]:
>> I previoously wrote [also in part]:
>>>
>>> Both Burnot and EE do not appear to understand the question.
>>
>> As OP, I do believe that I understand the question. :-)
>
> Oops! I meant Hunt and EE.
>
Of course! ;-)
Mike Easter
> Cy Burnot wrote:
>> Is there any way to change the Reply-To: Address setting on a "per
>> message" basis?
> There are two ways:
> Screencast: <http://ilias.ca/screencasts/tb-replyto1.webm> [377K]
> Screencast: <http://ilias.ca/screencasts/tb-replyto2.webm> [1.8M]
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Cy Burnot
WOW!!! Thanks 1e9!!
Cy Burnot
<snip>
> If it is a Reply-To header you set often, you can create another
> identity for that account with the different Reply-To header.
> See
> <http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/configuring-email-aliases#w_using-identities-to-specify-a-reply-to-address>
> When composing a message, just click on the "From" header, and a
> drop-down will appear with all your identities for you to pick from.
> Screencast: <http://ilias.ca/screencasts/tb-replyto2.webm> [1.8M]
>
Well, that's easy enough to do but I ran into a few snags.
1) If I use my name and the email address of the mailing list I belong
to, how do I differentiate between that identity and my normal one, both
of which use the same name and email address.
2) I set the Reply-to: of the new identity to the address I wanted and
saved it. Then, I wrote to the mailing list in question being careful to
use the correct identity. The reply-to was not what I had set. :-(
Any thoughts? I can make a screencast and post it if you like.
Chris Ilias
> Well, that's easy enough to do but I ran into a few snags.
>
> 1) If I use my name and the email address of the mailing list I belong
> to, how do I differentiate between that identity and my normal one, both
> of which use the same name and email address.
Not a solution, but a workaround:
You could put something in your posting name, like "Cy Burnot [replyto]".
> 2) I set the Reply-to: of the new identity to the address I wanted and
> saved it. Then, I wrote to the mailing list in question being careful to
> use the correct identity. The reply-to was not what I had set. :-(
Was it set back to the mailing list address? If so, that is probably a
mailing list setting to override every poster's reply-to header. One of
the reasons why I don't have it set here is because it makes it very
hard to take discussions off-list.
<http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/msg/9c0db46ce24539a1>
Good Guy
Cy Burnot wrote:
> Well, that's easy enough to do but I ran into a few snags.
>
> 1) If I use my name and the email address of the mailing list I belong
> to, how do I differentiate between that identity and my normal one, both
> of which use the same name and email address.
On a windows system, you could create another profile that uses
something else that you want to broadcast.
>
> 2) I set the Reply-to: of the new identity to the address I wanted and
> saved it. Then, I wrote to the mailing list in question being careful to
> use the correct identity. The reply-to was not what I had set. :-(
>
> Any thoughts? I can make a screencast and post it if you like.
I have not been able to replicate this on my system but in the bad old
days, I used to send my messages later (File >> Send Later) then I go to
my local folders and edit these messages to get exactly what I want. A
very tedious method but it worked. the changes I used to make were
superficial like date and time of the email etc.
hth
Bohgosity BumaskiL
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This would be easy with Pine. Just put reply-to in the list of headers
to display or edit, the default being empty. I used to manually write my
organization that way. It was either:
As phony as a three dollar Bill Clinton
or
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Cy Burnot
> On 11-09-04 7:01 PM, Cy Burnot wrote:
>> Well, that's easy enough to do but I ran into a few snags.
>>
>> 1) If I use my name and the email address of the mailing list I belong
>> to, how do I differentiate between that identity and my normal one, both
>> of which use the same name and email address.
>
> Not a solution, but a workaround:
> You could put something in your posting name, like "Cy Burnot [replyto]".
Did that. Very helpful.
>> 2) I set the Reply-to: of the new identity to the address I wanted and
>> saved it. Then, I wrote to the mailing list in question being careful to
>> use the correct identity. The reply-to was not what I had set. :-(
>
> Was it set back to the mailing list address? If so, that is probably a
> mailing list setting to override every poster's reply-to header. One of
> the reasons why I don't have it set here is because it makes it very
> hard to take discussions off-list.
> <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/msg/9c0db46ce24539a1>
The mailing list is set to send replies only to the original poster.
Could that be overriding reply-to header?
Cy Burnot
>
> Cy Burnot wrote:
>
>> Well, that's easy enough to do but I ran into a few snags.
>>
>
>> 1) If I use my name and the email address of the mailing list I belong
>> to, how do I differentiate between that identity and my normal one, both
>> of which use the same name and email address.
>
> On a windows system, you could create another profile that uses
> something else that you want to broadcast.
Good idea, but probably wouldn't work for me.
>> 2) I set the Reply-to: of the new identity to the address I wanted and
>> saved it. Then, I wrote to the mailing list in question being careful to
>> use the correct identity. The reply-to was not what I had set. :-(
>>
>> Any thoughts? I can make a screencast and post it if you like.
>
> I have not been able to replicate this on my system but in the bad old
> days, I used to send my messages later (File >> Send Later) then I go to
> my local folders and edit these messages to get exactly what I want. A
> very tedious method but it worked. the changes I used to make were
> superficial like date and time of the email etc.
No longer do I have the discipline to do that. Alas!
Cy Burnot
<snip>
> Was it set back to the mailing list address? If so, that is probably a
> mailing list setting to override every poster's reply-to header.
Yes, dammit!! Curses, foiled again!
Thanks for your help.