I have elected to receive the majority of the mailing lists I am subscribed to in mime digest mode (actually all the lists who support such a mode, which incidentally means all mailman-managed ones).

Recently there was a discussion on the alpine lists about ways to automatically trigger (as an user preference in the MTA, not as a list preference in mailman or alike) that replies go to the list, not to the poster (I'm one of the 50% of the people who think that a discussion list is made for discussions not for person-to-person replies).

This can be technically implemented in alpine as a role-setting rule triggered by some pattern in the e-mail message one is replying to.

The suggestion was to use List-Id.

However, if one receives from the list as a MIME digest (as I do), and accesses individual Message/RFC822 portions as if it were an individual e-mail (which I do via a key definition rule in alpine), these portions DO NOT CONTAIN ANY of the "list management keywords".

I guess a quick workaround for me would be to use the To: field instead of List-Id, but I wonder if a future mailman version could consider a way to include the "list management keywords" in the Message/RFC822 components !

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