On 2011/06/30 15:30, Chris Tooley wrote:
> Hello all (mainly the SL maintainer-type-people),
>
> I have a really neat thing in Thunderbird 3.1.11 that pops up on most emails
> from lists servs: a button that says "respond to list"...
>
> Except, it doesn't show up for the scientific linux users (SLusers) list
> emails; I figure it's because of the email headers.
>
> Looking at one of the list emails source vs. the SLusers email source, there
> are a small number of extra email headers not on the SLusers emails that may
> be the culprit, reproduced here with some possible values:
>
> list-post: <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> list-id: <www.scientificlinux.org>
> Reply-to: "Chris Tooley" <[log in to unmask]>,
> "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Dunno how hard it would be to implement this but that would be cool to have
> this feature for this list.. :)
>
> -Chris

This is how I deal with it, Chris - in my .procmailrc file.

===8<---
##############################################################################
## Rewrite Reply-To: for Scientific Linux Users List
###############################################################################
#

:0 fw
* ^List-Unsubscribe: .*(SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS-unsubscribe-request)
| formail -A "$PROCMAILMATCH Scientific Linux users list" -i "Reply-to: 
[log in to unmask]"
===8<---

I am sure something like that can be done to other mailing lists
that insist replies should go to the sender rather than the list.

{^_-}