[Alpine-info] Question about message composition - attaching files

[Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info]

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El 2025-05-27 a las 11:43 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info escribió:

>> From: Bret Busby via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>

>

>> Also, I do not know who administers this list, but, in Thunderbird, which I am

>> using to compose and send this message, for some mailing lists, I have the

>> options "Reply to sender" and "Reply to List", but, on this list, I have only

>> "Reply to sender" and "Reply to all", which causes two copies of a reply to be

>> sent; one to the list, and, one to the sender of the message to which I am

>> replying. Is it possible on this list, to get the "Reply to all", replaced

>> with "Reply to list"?


First, have a look at the menu at the very end of the compose window:

     [ Note: This message contains email list management information ]

Mail to list is missing, but there are some interesting entries. That 
said, I do get [Reply List] in Thunderbird on this list, but not on the 
emai copy that was sent direct to me. Only on the copy that was sent by 
the list server (I get the two: some mail accounts, notably gmail, delete 
the copy that arrives later)



> For mailing lists, "From" is screwed up to evade SPAM filtering.  This is

> not an Alpine problem.

>

> To prevent SPAM, most mail servers have adopted a rule:

> only accept mail "From" an email address if the server sending it is

> authorized to receive mail from the domain of that email address.

>

> This breaks mailing lists: the "From" would naturally be the email address

> of the person who submitted to message.  For example, in your messages

> case, bret at busby.net.  But the MX record for busby.net says (only)

> busby.net can handle mail for you.  So the mailing list program sends

> your message with an rewritten "From":

> 	Bret Busby via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>

>

> That's why a simple reply doesn't do what you want it to.


That's correct, but Thunderbird added a feature (maybe a decade ago?) so 
that when viewing an email from a mail list, this is detected and you get 
a context menu:

                              [Reply][Reply list][Forward][Archive][Junk][Delete][More]


Bret was wondering about the [Reply list] button not appearing on some 
list mail. He found the answer already, it is because that email was a 
copy sent directly to him by the poster when hitting "Reply to all".

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Cheers
        Carlos E. R.

        (from openSUSE 15.6 (Laicolasse))

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