From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 18:15:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1A81065672 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:15:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430588FC0A for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:15:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m5BIFe3f067195; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:15:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m5BIFewD067194; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:15:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:15:40 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200806111815.m5BIFewD067194@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, novembre@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90806092110o4f409778u29aa15be92c0959e@mail.gmail.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:15:41 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: question about posting to FreeBSD mailing lists X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, novembre@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:15:43 -0000 Hello, Novembre wrote: > The problem is that I don't use any mail client, but the old fashion way of > using a web browser to log into my account and read my emails. That's why I > asked this question in the first place. Call me paranoid, but I just feel > more comfortable that way! > So to be more specific, how can I answer to a post from a mailing list from > within my, e.g., GMail or Yahoo! mailboxes? Is there any way to use the Raw > E-Mail output to send an email from within GMail to the OP and the list so > that it's threaded properly as well? You need to take the "Message-ID" header of the message that you're replying to, and put it into the "In-Reply-To" header of your response. That's what a standard mail client does when you reply to a message. The "In-Reply-To" header is used by clients and webmailers to identify the thread and the order of messages within that thread. I've never used Gmail or Yahoo, so I don't know if they provide a way to manually set the "In-Reply-To" header. If they don't you're out of luck, I'm afraid. By the way, I'm in a similar situation: I'm not subscribed to the lists, but I read them with a news client via an NNTP gateway. That gateway is one-way, i.e. I cannot post follow-ups to the news groups. Instead I use the reply-by- mail function of the news client. This works well, because the NNTP gateway sets the "Reply-To" back to the list's mail address (unless there already was a Reply-To header in the original mail, which is kept), and I configured my news client to copy the Message-ID into an In-Reply-To header, so it works as expected. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd I suggested holding a "Python Object Oriented Programming Seminar", but the acronym was unpopular. -- Joseph Strout