issue with reply to mailing list

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue May 19 12:59:39 GMT 2020


On 5/19/2020 5:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 18 12:02, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 5/18/2020 11:07 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 16/05/2020 20:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> On 16.05.2020 20:47, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>> Greetings, Marco Atzeri!
>>>>>
>>>>>> it is just me or the cygwin mailing lists post are not
>>>>>> reporting anymore the reply to the list tag ?
>>>>>
>>>>> You seems to have replied to an off-list mail.
>>>>>
>>>>> msgid:0d9b4a1b-05ba-8ab1-3783-c3d1f04f97b7@gmail.com is not found in my list
>>>>> archive.
>>>>
>>>> not that the issue.
>>>> That give me the idea that I am not the only one with the issue,
>>>> as I am changing manually the send to address and sometime
>>>> I forget or screw ups.
>>>>
>>>>>> I am using Thunderbird and the option reply to list is not
>>>>>> offered anymore for any of the cygwin mailing list.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ask Thunderbid, what it expects as an indication of a "list message" ?
>>>>> There's a bunch of "List-xxxx" headers.
>>>>
>>>> looking in chronological order, I see the problem on the cygwin-apps
>>>> and developer mailing lists from the date of server change.
>>>>
>>>> The cygwin main list seems to not have the same issue.
>>>> But it can be an issue with Thunderbird as I have impression
>>>> to had the same issue also with it.
>>>
>>> Comparing the configuration of the lists, the only significant
>>> difference I noticed is that cygwin-apps is not configured to add a
>>> 'List-Post' header.
>>>
>>> Searching there does seem to be suggestions that the presence of this
>>> header causes Thunderbird to display a 'Reply to List' button.
>>>
>>> I changed the cygwin-apps list configuration to add that.  Let me know
>>> if that makes things better (or worse!).
>>
>> I was seeing the same issue as Marco, and it appears to be fixed now.  (The
>> latest message from Brian to cygwin-apps shows the Reply List button.)  I'm
>> also seeing the issue on cygwin-patches and cygwin-developers.  Can you fix
>> those too?
> 
> I fixed them, too.

Thanks.  That does fix the problem for both lists.

Ken


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