Re: make gnus reply correctly to debian lists

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx> writes:

On 2009-05-18 02:25 +0200, Tiago Saboga wrote:

I am moving from mutt to gnus, and I am missing a description of how to
make gnus behave "the right way" when dealing with debian lists. I use
fetchmail to get messages from my ISP, and a strange combination of
procmail and maildrop to filter them into mboxes, where each mailing
list has its own inbox. Gnus takes messages there and stores them in its
nnml backend. Now I would like gnus to know that whenever I reply to any
debian list, it is to send my reply only to the list, except if
explicitly told otherwise (it should also do the right thing if it finds
mail-followup-to and reply-to headers, and I don't even know what is the
right thing in that case).

You can achieve this using group parameters, e.g. I have the following
parameters for this list:

((to-address . "debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
(to-list . "debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
(subscribed . t))

This ensures that follow-ups and new posts go the list and
Mail-Followup-To is set. See (Info "(gnus) Group Parameters") for more
information. Note that you should reply with follow-up (bound to "F")
and not reply-all (bound to "S W") if you want to reply to the list
only.

Thanks to everyone who answered. It's what I am doing right now for this
list (via customization, as I am not yet comfortable with all gnus
variables), but I am subscribed to more than 10 debian lists and I would
not like to do this manual configuration for each of them. How do I say
to gnus: "Everytime I reply to a debian list, I want my message to go
only to the list, except if I tell you otherwise"?


Tiago.


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