Unexplained mutt error

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Fri Feb25'22 01:29:14PM, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh at panix.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:29:14 -0500
> To: mutt-users at mutt.org
> Subject: Re: Unexplained mutt error
>
> On 2022/02/25 10:53, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>
> > Regardless, actually I think that all I would be happy with would be a query or something that alerts me to the fact that I am potentially writing to an individual address (or a list) (for when I am  on a list, but not in general, because then I start to blindly accept because most email is not to a list).
>
> It's possible to configure Mutt so that its index tells you that a message
> came from a list. The default index format includes %L, so all you'd have to
> do is use "subscribe" to tell Mutt what lists you're subscribed to. Or
> there's $auto_subscribe, to do that automatically for lists that announce
> themselves.
>
> With the index telling you the message came from a list, then you would know
> to reply with 'L'.
>
> You could try this to see if you like it by just adding this to your
> .muttrc:
> set auto_subscribe=yes
>
> This section of the manual describes what Mutt can do with mailing lists:
> <http://mutt.org/doc/manual/#using-lists>


My apologies, I guess I was not at all clear in my question. I want a hook which if I press "r" would give me a query about if I want to answer to the list or reply to the sender.

Thanks,
Ranjan