The list headers have "reply-to= list,ignore" coded in them. When mail sent
to these lists arrives, the from: line does indeed carry the listname by
default.
However if anyone tries to reply in a mail client the To: field becomes the
list title, rather than the list name.

As an example a post from a list called duncan-testing, is displayed as
"from: duncan-testing", but the actual reply-to field and sender field in
the header appears as;
"Reply-To: Duncans Testing List <[log in to unmask]>"
"Sender: Duncans Testing List <[log in to unmask]>"
As such some mail clients tend to display the comment part of these fields
rather than the actual email address that is being replied to.
If using Outlook (I know, bad idea, but it's lab policy, shame), then when
it displays the To: field, you can right click on that field and look at
it's properties, and it is in here that it tells you the actual address
being sent to.

This default can be over-ridden by using;
"reply-to= [log in to unmask]" instead of "list,ignore", which then
does not put the header comment in the original mail, but from what I have
read the site wide configuration option list-address= is supposed to be able
to allow you to set this option as a default for all lists.

I just cannot figure out what should go into this option, I have tried
listname@fqdn, and have tried list-id@fqdn, neither makes any difference.

Help
Cheers
Duncan

-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 06 December 2000 18:07
To: Russell, D (Duncan)
Cc: LISTSERV give-and-take forum
Subject: Re: More questions


On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:36:00 GMT, "Russell, D (Duncan)" <[log in to unmask]>
said:
> However when you click on reply, the field that gets filled in as the
> default to field is part of the list title. So a list with a title like;
> Duncans test list 3
> which is called duncan@whatever attempts to reply to the address
> Duncans test list 3, which has the properties of the listname.

"the properties"?  I'm confused...

> Users here would like to have this field show the actual listname in the
> reply to box, when you attempt to reply to the list.

Well.. '* Reply-to = List' should have the listname show up there.

Unless they're using some broken piece-of-manure Mail User Agent.

Could you be more specific regarding what MUA they are using,
what the *entire* original line is, and what their MUA is
presenting as an address to reply to?
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                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech