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

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Mon Feb 20 18:28:15 UTC 2012


Richard England wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
I use seamonkey and remove the "title" of the email to get the list to 
accept replies.

-- 
Ken Stephens, SV Aventura, Portland, OR




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