Is there a dedicated mail client for list messages ?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:17:07 +0100, Polytropon wrote:
>On a message, use the mailer's reply function "Reply to all" or "Reply
>to mailing list".
>
>Again, allow me to recommend Sylpheed.

Sylpheed, as well as Claws-Mail invoke mailing list replies by "Reply"
and not by "Reply All". This does cause a different reply behaviour,
depending on an overwritten or not overwritten "Reply-To" header by the
mailman settings chosen by the list owner and it depends on the fact
that a subscriber does use a "Reply-To" header or not. Evolution
OTOH invokes mailing list replies by "Reply to all". MUAs invoking
mailing list replies by "Reply to all" only reply to the mailing list,
but Claws does reply to the mailing list, as well as CC'ing to

Reply-To: Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>

if I use Claws-Mail's "Reply" (invoking a mailing list reply) or "Reply
to Mailing list" option.

The advantage is, if a subscriber, e.g. on an open list like FreeBSD
does use the "Reply-To" header and it's not overwritten with the mailing
list address (FreeBSD question's doesn't, but other mailman lists
sometimes do), then all replies to mailing list are CC'ed to the
original author, who not necessarily is subscribed.

The disadvantage is, that I actually needed to remove Polytropon
<freebsd at edvax.de> from the CC address bar.

Assuming Polytropon should protect himself against duplicated mails, by
using the mailman subscriber setting for this purpose, he unfortunately
would receive original mails without a mailing list header, since
mailman just doesn't path through duplicates. IOW in this case a reply
to a mailing list wouldn't work for him at all, he would need to add the
mailing list address manually.

Actually there is no MUA able to handle all mailing list reply
possibilities automatically, if the users of a mailing list don't
understand the mailing list settings made by the list owner and the
behaviour of different MUAs.

Regards,
Ralf