Re: [Evolution] Reply-To Question

[Ray Hunter <bigdog venticon com>]

I like the reply-to-list feature...that is cool...however, if i am
replying to a list i would like that list email there so that i do not
get tons of double sends...to me and then list...

I would like the ability to at least have the option that is i use the
reply-to-list i can have the list added to the reply-to for me as well
or somehow have a script that can do that for me...



On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 17:37, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 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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