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

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 05:27:26PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> 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 key word above is "subscribed".  And this is what distinguishes the
"subscribe" command from the "lists" command.

The documentation for $followup_to further elaborates:
  The header will contain only the list's address for subscribed lists,
  and both the list address and your own email address for unsubscribed
  lists.

So, using the "subscribe" command will generate only the list address in
the MFT header.  Using the "lists" command will generate both the list
address and your own email address.

The fact that this has tripped up at least a couple long-time users
means the documentation is not clear enough about this.  I'll add
something to the "Handling Mailing Lists" section to help clarify this.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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