[OE-core] [PATCHv2 0/3] u-boot recipe updates

McClintock Matthew-B29882 B29882 at freescale.com
Mon Jul 9 18:20:57 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 12:14 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:00 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> > > > On a related note, is it possible to fix the mailing list so that it
>> > > > does not strip To/Cc information and Message-ID strings?  [I'd have to
>> > > > check -- maybe it is (also) inserting a needless Reply-To: header that
>> > > > messes things up.]
>>
>> Your mail suffers the exact same problem.  My address is nowhere to be
>> seen on the To/Cc:  I only happened to see it since I told mutt to
>> show me all archived poky/oe mails with u-boot in the subject.
>> Otherwise your message would have been lost in the noise, perhaps seen
>> next week when I return from OOO.
>>
>> And when I hit reply, it won't go to you unless I tell mutt to ignore
>> the broken Reply-To line.  It is the line right at the bottom:
>
> Ah, I see.  So, just to be clear, the mailing list isn't stripping
> anything: the reason that your address doesn't appear in To/Cc is, as
> you suggest, purely because the Reply-to: header which mailman inserts
> tends to cause replies to be sent only to the list.
>
> I tend to agree with you that the Reply-to header is a bad idea and it
> would be better off disabled, but this is a list policy decision and
> Richard, as the administrator, would need to decide whether he wants to
> disable it or not.
>
> For what it's worth, you can partially defeat this behaviour by
> inserting your own Reply-to header in messages that you send to the
> list.  If you tell mutt to add:
>
> Reply-to: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>
>
> then mailman will translate this to:
>
> Reply-to: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com>,
> openembedded-core at lists.openembedded.org
>
> which will probably produce more or less the effect that you are looking
> for.  I realise that this is still somewhat annoying but you might find
> it better than the behaviour you are getting at present.
>
> p.

I really wish this worked like 99% of other mailing lists....

-M




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