On 3/31/2012 2:31 PM, jdd wrote:
is it normal to have this behavior (double to in the answer)? Previously the system was managed by ezmlm and we didn'"t have this problem (but I didn't manage it, so may be the other admin fixed something)
I have no idea what ezmlm or your ezmlm<=>news gateway may have done. I know no details of ezmlm at all.
could this also be a thunderbird bug?
It is normal for messages in newsgroups to have a Newsgroups: header with the name of the group. RFC 5536 and its predecessors, RFCs 1036 and 1849 require it.
I don't know what version of T'bird you are using, but with T'bird 11.0 and 11.0.1, at least as configured on my workstations, if I 'Reply' to a message containing the headers:
From: Original Poster <poster@example.com> Newsgroups: linux-31 To: linux-31@example.org List-Post: <mailto:linux-31@culte.org>
the reply is addressed only
To: Original Poster <poster@example.com>
If I 'Reply List', the reply is addressed
To: linux-31@example.org Newsgroup: linux-31
and if I 'Reply All', the reply is addressed
To: Original Poster <poster@example.com> Cc: linux-31@example.org Newsgroup: linux-31
Some other MUAs, e.g. mutt, ignore the Newsgroups: header when generating replies.
Note that I don't see an extra To: in any of the above; just sometimes Newsgroup: in addition to To:
T'bird's behavior doesn't seem unreasonable, but if you don't like it, that's not really a Mailman issue. If you wish to remove the Newsgroups: header from messages passing through Mailman, I've told you how to do it in my prior reply.
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