Re: [Evolution] Reply-To Question

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 12:27, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:36, Ray Hunter wrote:
> > I would like the reply-to field to populate to the list email
> > address...is this possible?
>
> So would I, but we seem to be in the minority.

I don't think it should do this by default.  You can always fill in the
list as the reply-to by hand.  I'm not convinced that adding this as an
option is worthwhile.  (mind you, I'm not actually an Evolution hacker,
but I try to keep up with it pretty closely).

> My annoyances, as is, are:
>
> - just hitting reply does not send to list as usually intended.

Doing this means that you have to have some way of replying -other- than
hitting the 'reply' button, in case you want to just send mail to the
original sender.  Furthermore, the existing code to make 'reply-to-list'
work is horrible and hacky.  I haven't found a 'good' solution for this
yet (although it's been suggested that I look at the gnus code.  I hope
to get there soon).  This is one of those problems that appears HARD to
solve.

> - reply to all means original poster gets two copies.  Why?

It doesn't.  I think you're missing out on some common use-cases.  There
are many mailing lists out there which do not require you to be a member
of the list before posting.  That is to say, reply-to-all only results
in the sender getting two copies of the mail if they're not on the
list.  Removing the sender on 'reply-to-all' is a BAD idea.

> - evolution, unlike "primitive" MUAs like mutt and kmail does not bind
> any key to the "reply to list" action, nor is there a toolbar button.,
> so to reply properly, you have to dig into the menus.
See http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=34608  Feel free to
contribute suggested keybindings or some new icons.  Hope that helps,
        Greg

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Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>