Re: [Evolution-hackers] No "Reply All" for Evolution (3) ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Shane McEwan <s mcewan bom gov au>]

I think the "Reply to All" button is pretty important. I just used it
now to reply to your message. 

When I click the "Send" button I expect it to do just that: send the
message. I don't want my mail program to be asking me a whole stack of
questions. Worse than that, it will not ask me those questions
consistently but only if there's multiple recipients. So, instead of
hitting "Send" and then immediately switching my mental focus onto
something else I may or may not be interrupted with further questions.

How about a configuration option where you can specify what default
action you want the reply button to take? Much like the ability to set
how messages are forwarded: inline, attachment, quoted, etc you could
have the options: Reply to Sender/Reply-to: (the default and same as
current "Reply" button), Reply to All (the same as the "Reply to All"
button), Reply to Sender Only (Ignores any Reply-to: header and only
replies to the sender. This doesn't exist in Evolution at the moment but
I would really, really, REALLY like it!).

Plus, no matter which one of the three actions you set to be the default
for the "Reply" button, all three are available under the "Message"
menu.

Sure, it doesn't solve the newbie issue but anyone who doesn't double
check who they're sending a message to before hitting "Send" deserves
what they get anyway. :-)

On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 07:13 +0200, Martin Jeppesen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Many novice users don't understand the Reply and Reply All buttons, so they
> often pick one at random or always use just one of them. Just think of people
> that reply to chain letters.
> 
> A solution to this could be to remove the Reply All button from the main
> toolbar and have only one send button like now, but the user is presented with
> a list of the recipients if there are more than one.
> 
> A mock up of this could be:
> 
> 
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------
> |                                                                    |
> | The email that you are about to send have more than one recipient. |
> | Please choose who shall receive this email.                        |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |v| Elvis Presley (elvis presley com)                            |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |v| Bob Dylan (bob dylan com)                                    |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |_| Leonard Cohen (leonard cohan com)                            |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |_| Alan Stivell (alan stivell com)                              |
> |    _                                                               |
> |   |v| Nick Cave (nick cave com)                                    |
> |                                                                    |
> |                                        [Return to composer] [Send] |
> |____________________________________________________________________|
> 
> 
> or
> 
>  --------------------------------------------------------------------
> |                                                                    |
> | The email that you are about to send have more than one recipient. |
> | Please choose who shall receive this email.                        |
> |                                                                    |
> |  To CC  BCC None                                                   |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (o) (_) (_) (_)  Elvis Presley (elvis presley com)                 |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (o) (_) (_)  Bob Dylan (bob dylan com)                         |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (_) (_) (o)  Leonard Cohen (leonard cohan com)                 |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (_) (_) (o)  Alan Stivell (alan stivell com)                   |
> |  _   _   _   _                                                     |
> | (_) (o) (_) (_)  Nick Cave (nick cave com)                         |
> |                                                                    |
> |                                        [Return to composer] [Send] |
> |____________________________________________________________________|
> 
> The benefit of this idea is that is no longer need to a Reply All button.
> 
> It could be made into a complete recipient chooser if it is combined with the
> address book.
> 
> So sending an email would have these 3 steps:
> 1. Press Reply
> 2. Write email
> 3. Choose recipient(s)
> 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Martin
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