Subj : Re: NNTP and To: field
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Accession
Date : Sun Nov 09 2025 08:54:22

Hey Carlos!

On Sun, Nov 09 2025 07:07:07 -0600, you wrote:

> 05 Nov 2025 17:08, you wrote to Digital Man:
> 
>   > but with Thunderbird and slrn I am able to stuff an "X-Comment-To" field
>   > into the headers so that they both reply to the specific person all
>   > of the time.
> 
> Interesting! Could you share how to do that in TB?
Here is a message posted with Thunderbird with the "X-Comment-To" field filled in.

This is the only way I could do it with TB, and while it's not super friendly (you'll forget to do it sometimes, probably), it works:

Settings > Config Editor

  - Search for 'mail.compose.other.header', edit it and put "X-Comment-To" without quotes.

When you write/reply to a message, in the header there it says "Followup-To   >>", hit the ">>" drop down menu, and "X-Comment-To" will be an option to select now. Then, fill it in with who you're writing the message to (yes, manually).

Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to make this automatic with TB, whereas with slrn I can just use the "set custom_headers "X-Comment-To: All"" to new posts (which may not even be needed), and "set followup_custom_headers "X-Comment-To: %r"" (%r is recipient) right in the config file, and it's always automatic.

Regards,
Nick

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