Thank's @seanmonstar for pointing out that outstanding feature request, which unfortunately doesn't seem to be moving anywhere (since 2015)...
This is exactly why I also said that at the moment Discourse can't actually be used as a replacement for a mailing list -- although from all the other alternatives it comes closer.
@josh Please understand that this issue is not a peculiarity of GMail; this is just how mailing-list mechanics should work as established by years of "de-facto" standards. To summarize:
- all emails sent through a mailing list should have the
List-Id
(and other headers set); (Discourse does this;) - the
Reply-To
header should be changed from the original authors address to the email address of the mailing list; - the
To
andCc
headers shouldn't be changed by the mailing list; (thus only if the original author puts you inTo
orCc
, sort like an@
mention in Discourse, would your email address appear in those headers;) and unfortunately Discourse breaks this "rule"...
And as seen:
Nonetheless, if this is an issue for you, you could report it upstream to Discourse.
isn't actually working, as the issue is known since 2014...
Moreover I don't even think it's fair to say "it's not our problem, go complain to the developer of this third party solution we are using"... (They didn't force us to use their system; we choose it, and thus we should take the responsibility for it.)
See bellow a few other people making similar points. Which again, although they mention GMail, that is mainly because GMail has a 25% market share (as per various studies) of the overall email clients, and I bet it's closer to 75% (my guess) for "technical" people.
Gmail mute not working
As @tobiaseigen pointed out, Google tells us exactly what causes a message to be āun-mutedā in the conversation: Muted conversations will only pop back into your inbox ready for your attention if a new message in the conversation is addressed to...
Gmail mute not working
The way Github makes this work is by including the userās email in the Cc instead of To. Other mailing lists seem to use an alias instead, so the To address doesnāt look like itās to you specifically.
Gmail mute not working
To be consistent with mailing lists, itād be nice if the āToā address was the same as the email-in address for the relevant category, if one exists.