On 09/06/11 00:47, Phil Turmel wrote:
On 06/08/2011 05:58 PM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: [...]
The point is that when you set the headers correctly on your message, a reply from someone on your message will not generate a duplicate in the first place, thereby eliminating your problem even before it exists :)
To add a data point, this message was a "reply-to-all" in Thunderbird 3.1.10. It included Tom's address, ignoring the reply-to: header.
Actually I only set the reply-to header (by hand) on the message in which I said that I did that, and not on the second one, because I am lazy and there is no tb plugin to make my life easier. Please try again on the correct message.
Considering Thunderbird's popularity, just using a reply-to: header won't solve the duplicate message "problem". This is especially true on open mail lists, like those at kernel.org, where "reply-to-all" is expected of participants.
I use Thunderbird too, and I did test what I documented. To be sure, please check the headers of both messages.
I don't use this practice often (depends on the ml, and the ppl on it), but some time ago the duplicate issue irritated me enough to spend a good thought at what the real problem was. Just shared my results, especially since they are apparently non-obvious :)
But maybe we're getting a bit off-topic. After all this is a list about dovecot and IMAP-related stuff.
-- Regards, Tom