Mutt and Mail-Followup-To

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

Stephan Beyer wrote (2008-05-31 04:40 +0200):

> Oh, it was not meant to be rude. In fact, I didn't even knew that my
> mutt generates it. ;) So I deactivated it and I hope it helps you to
> enjoy your Caipirinha.
> 
> Btw, I'm confused whether I should use "List reply" (which only
> replies to git@vger.kernel.org) or "Reply to all" (which I used now).
> While on some other mailinglists it is discouraged to "reply to all",
> it seems to be the common case here.

Mutt's logic is pretty complicated on this. If followup_to=yes, then
Mutt generates M-F-T field and puts all the addresses gathered from To
and CC fields there (minus user's own). In addition to that, if there's
a mailing list address which is in users's "subscribe" list Mutt will
not add users's own address to the M-F-T. If the list address is only in
"lists" list, Mutt will add users's own address. The intention is to
prevent duplicates when user is a subscriber, and to get private replies
if user is not a subscriber.

The logic is so complicated and not very well supported so it doesn't
work well anyway. I think the best thing to do is:

  set followup_to=no
  set honor_followup_to=ask-no

One just has to find out if the list in question favours "replies to
all" (the 'g' key in Mutt) or replies to the list only ('L' in Mutt).