[X-Newbies] about mail

[Steven Rogers]

On Sep 1, 2005, at 8:38 AM, Raoul Armfield wrote:

> Menno Tillema wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I' ve made a transition from PMMail (for OS/2, see   
>> www.pmmail2000.com) to Apple mail. What I _do_ like is the ability  
>> to  select some text, type apple-R and to get a new message with  
>> little  quoted text. At last (as with pmmail) a decent way of  
>> quoting!
>> What I _don' t_ like is the way to reply to  from mailing lists.  
>> When  one hits reply, the only adress one gets, is the list  
>> address. Is  there a way to select the from address to reply "off  
>> list"? I  couldn't find this in the help-files.
>
> This is generally a issue not with your mail client rather with the  
> list -serve software that the mailinglist you belong to uses.
>  What happens is that the software substitutes the address to the  
> list for the replyto address.  This is done with the idea that any  
> responses to the questions would probably benefit all the recipients.

The easiest way to do this is, after hitting reply, click the list  
address in the TO line, hit delete, then click and drag the sender's  
email address from the original mail message to the TO line of your  
current message.

SR