[Mailman-Users] Reply Command Acting Weird

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:09 PM -0500 2004/05/31, David Andrews wrote:

>  I am running Mailman version 2.1.5.  I have a couple users reporting that
>  when they use the "Reply" command in their mail program, that both the
>  list address, and the sender of the original message, addresses are put
>  there.  I have Mailman set to set reply to the list, so the sender
>  shouldn't be there.  One user uses PM Mail, another Outlook Express.

	They're probably doing a "Reply-All", which is replying to all 
the addresses shown in the "From:", "To:", and "Cc:" headers, and 
ignoring the content of the "Reply-To:" header.

	If so, then there's not much you can do about this -- you're at 
the mercy of the clients.

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