Mail-Followup-To (was Re: breaking long header lines into 2 (or more) lines)

[Erik Christiansen]

On 27.04.18 08:57, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> I always thought $followup_to was a pretty nice feature.  While I
> sympathize with Matthias, the mischief was the result of
> misconfiguration, and Mutt requires nothing if not attention to the
> documentation and configuration.
> 
> However, if there is a strong majority of mutt-users subscribers that
> agree with $followup_to defaulting to 'no', I'll make the change.

Here, <F1> declares: "Mutt also supports the Mail-Followup-To header.
When you send a message to a list of recipients which includes one or
several subscribed mailing lists, and if the $followup_to option is set,
Mutt will generate a Mail-Followup-To header which contains all the
recipients to whom you send this message, but not your address."

The request for a changed default seems to have arisen from Matthias'
Mail-Followup-To header erroneously including his own address. It does
seem likely that this problem arises from misconfiguration, as no-one
shares his difficulties. Here I have both subscribed lists, and some not.
In the latter case, Mail-Followup-To is not generated, and in the former
I find only the other recipients, as described in the manual. That is
with no $followup_to setting, i.e. default, as Matthias has.

What other configuration is required in order to place the sender's
address in Mail-Followup-To, in contradiction to the manual entry is
then a curiosity.

Erik