Re: [Evolution] Reply-To Question

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur alexion com>]

On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 19:37, 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).

See what I mean...

> > 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. 

Isn't this the rare instance?  I always thought that the purpose of mail
lists is so that questions AND ANSWERS can be shared with everyone on
the list.  Occasionally a reply to sender only is warranted, but this
should be rare.

>  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.

I don't know.  I subscribe to about 8 lists and only 2 of the 8 work
like this one.  The other (hosted by ultraviolet.org) is the worst
administered list I've encountered in 9 years on the Internet.  The
other six seem to accomplish the reply to list function without any
problems.  I'm not sure what hard to solve problems you are speaking
of.  Many lists, which default to reply to list, even have an option as
to whether or not you receive copies of your own posts..


> > - 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.

You're kidding, right?


> > - 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,

BTW, why doesn't evolution have user configured key-bindings and
toolbars?  Is it a Gnome thing?  (I don't use gnome.  I use evolution in
GNUStep/WindowMaker, so I don't know if that is the case with all gnome
programs.  I use KDE occasionally, and most KDE apps let you configure
both).
>       Greg
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