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  • NNTP and To: field

    From Carlos Navarro@VERT to Accession on Wed Nov 19 17:21:04 2025
    09 Nov 2025 08:54, you wrote to me:

    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).

    Thank you.

    This can still be useful even if the "To: All" issue has been fixed in SBBS's NNTP server. You can use it this to change the default recipient to another one (or to set one when posting a new message), just like when you write "to: some one" in the first line of the message text in JamNNTPd.

    Carlos

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  • From Accession@VERT/PHARCYDE to Carlos Navarro on Wed Nov 19 17:36:53 2025
    Hey Carlos!

    On Tue, Oct 19 2025 10:21:04 -0600, you wrote:

    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).

    Thank you.

    Of course!

    This can still be useful even if the "To: All" issue has been fixed> in SBBS's NNTP server. You can use it this to change the default
    recipient to another one (or to set one when posting a new message),
    just like when you write "to: some one" in the first line of the
    message text in JamNNTPd.
    I am also keeping the config editor mod in place, for this very reason. However, it's now much easier to reply and not have to worry about filling in the name you're replying to manually every time. Now, you only have to do it if you're forcing it to someone else, or as you said, want to direct a /new/ message to someone besides "All".

    Thanks for catching this, and an amazing, informative description! I had asked DM about this a while back, but I couldn't describe it nearly as well, or find where in the code it was causing it not to work, like you did. So I left it alone and went with what I was doing with TB, because I would have made a fool of myself trying to report it while just getting at stuff. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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