[Techtalk] Munging and Wrapping - Thunderbird and Gmail web interface results

[Terry]

I used Thunderbird and had a conversation with myself on both lists
using two email addresses. lol One address is a Gmail account and I
tested Gmail's web interface.

*Munging*
Reply behavior with the munge option:

1. Clicking "Reply to the message" directed my reply to my other
address. No list address appeared. If I tried to reply to one of my
messages from the same address, the To was blank.

2. Clicking "Reply to sender and all recipients" directed the message to
my other address and the testmunge list address. If I tried this to one
of my messages from the same address, the To was the list address.

3. Clicking "Reply to mailing list" directed the the message to the list
address only. No change for replying to myself.

So for at least Thunderbird users, there's no change with the munging
option in how replying to an email works except if you reply to
yourself. Please note that this may not be how some other mail clients
handle it.

View behavior with the munge option:

1. View by Thread worked fine.

2. Unthreaded and sorted by From - Messages to the list were sorted
alphabetically based on the "Terry via Testmunge", so I'm assuming
Thunderbird sorts first on From address then From text. Messages sent
directly to my second address sorted separately.

Display
The only thing different was seeing "Terry via Testmunge" in the From
field and when replying, Thunderbird put "On 03/08/2015 07:07, Terry via
Testmunge wrote:".

Gmail Web Interface
With "Reply", the message went to my other address. With "Reply to all"
the message went to both the list and my address. The Gmail web
interface has no "Reply to mailing list" function.To send only to the
list, I had to use "Reply to all" and remove my private address if I
wanted the message to go to the list only.

Filtering
I didn't need to change my filters.  I use a combination of filters on
>From or To with linuxchix.org and specific lists.  YMMV

*Wrapping*
The reply to options worked the same except the only content was the
list footer. lol I tried to use forward and add the list address and
that didn't work well at all.

I had to specifically open the .eml attachment. Once I did that, there
was no "Reply to mailing list" option. To send to the list I had to use
"Reply All" and it broke threading.

Doesn't seem to be a very workable option at all. This should be called
the "Jumping through hoops" option.

-- 
Terry