[PLUG] Having trouble sending messages to the main plug mailing list via Thunderbird

Richard England rlengland at frontier.com
Mon Feb 20 18:16:17 UTC 2012


On 02/20/2012 10:11 AM, Rob Saul wrote:
> On 2/20/12 9:20 AM, Robert Miesen wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> I have recently noticed that for the last few months none of the replies /
>> questions that I've been "sending" using Thunderbird have been being posted
>> to the PLUG mailing list, yet when I use Gmail, everything works just fine.
>>
>> Could anyone give me some ideas as to what could be causing this rather
>> annoying issue? Thanks in advance for your help!
> I've seen similar problems with Thunderbird.  It seems to be related to
> the 'Reply-To' header looking like this -
>
> Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help;
> 	civil and on-topic"<plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
>
> It seems to confuse Thunderbird, which, at least for me, construct
> an incorrect address when it tries to send the email. I noticed that
> if I change the semi-colon (';') to a dash ('-') it seems to work just
> fine.
>
> 	~Rob
>

I believe I have encountered this as well but had not taken time to 
investigate.  I removed all the quoted text and the messages go through.

~~R



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