Make group mailinglist mode real mailinglist mode like in categories

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Users are requesting that Discourse’s group mailing list mode behave identically to category mailing list mode, particularly by delivering emails for users’ own posts — a feature currently missing in groups but present in categories. agit explains this inconsistency confuses users and hinders migration from Mailman, as many rely on receiving all messages, including their own, directly in their email clients. The issue was previously discussed in another thread, where Sam Saffron noted that “echo” mode (receiving your own posts) doesn’t exist for group messages. mcwumbly created a new feature topic to address this, suggesting the existing mailing list preference should apply to group messages without adding new settings. agit thanked them but noted the new topic link was broken, to which Moin clarified the posts were later moved into this existing feature topic. The core request remains: unify group and category mailing list behavior to support seamless transition from traditional mailing list tools like Mailman.

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For now only categories enable “real” mailinglist mode, wich means you really get ALL mails even your owns and if you answer a thread online. This doesn’t work for mailinglist mode in groups [1]. :sadpanda: It is hard to explain to our users why there is different behavior. Moreover a lot of them won’t switch from mailman because of the “getting all mails”-feature not implemented in discourse yet.

[1] Mailing list mode "Send me an email for every new post" doesn't send mails for your own posts - #3 by agit

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Turns out, that mailinglist mode is working different for categories and group messages. In categories you gt even your own posts, in groups you don’t. Wich is sad, because so we can’t switch of mailman, there are a lot of the “older” users who used to manage their “Mailinglist” in their email client. Detailed talk about it, here:

Thanks a lot for still having a look into it, 'cause we still want to switch from mailman…

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I’ve split this out into a new feature topic, per this earlier comment:

I think it’s worth considering respecting the existing mailing list mode preference in the context of group messages rather than adding an additional setting here.

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Thanks a lot for taking care of this. Sadly, the splitted topic couldn’t be found:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/respect-mailing-list-mode-preference-for-group-messages/329119

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That’s because the posts were moved to this existing feature topic afterwards.

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