Re: [Evolution] Reply to all should include myself

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Have you never used any other mail client? Every mail client strips your
address when doing a Reply-to-All.

Jeff

On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 11:24, Ryan P Skadberg wrote:
> I have to agree with David here.  Having to set up a VFolder or mailing
> list to have a simple conversation is ridiculous.  This has confused the
> hell out of me a couple of times because I didn't get my reply in the
> thread.  Take an example such as 10 people (including myself) are having
> a thread going back and forth about plans for Friday night.  I send in a
> reply just before I head to lunch and am gone for an hour or so.  If I
> don't get a copy of my own message, and the next message says something
> along the lines of "Hey, I don't think that time will work for me" and
> they didn't include my message in their reply (and I forget if I said 6
> or 7), now I have to go switch folder to my Sent folder, see what I
> said, go back to my INBOX and reply to the message.  For me, this is
> unreasonable.  I think that we should at least be able to configure
> whether or not we get a copy on a reply to all.  It can't be THAT hard
> to change code from:
>
> if (my address) { skip; }
>
> TO
>
> if (my address and i don't want to reply to myself) { skip }
>
>
> Skadz
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 03:31, David Hoover wrote:
> > A vfolder on what?
> > Everything in my inbox + sent?
> >
> > That breaks then if I file the threads away someplace else (unless I
> > made a separate vfolder for sent + whatever-other-box)
> >
> > And if you were to do that, you'd effectively be doing the same thing as
> > auto-ccing yourself on everything. Granted, you wouldn't have the
> > messages coming in as unread, but you also wouldn't be able to drop them
> > from the list (unless you wanted to purge them for good)
> >
> > And so I guess one could avoid seeing the zillions of messages by
> > normally reading the inbox, and only switching to the vfolder if you
> > have a thread you care about, but that adds the hassle of having to
> > realize you want to switch to the vfolder, doing it, scrolling till you
> > find that thread, etc.
> >
> > It really seems that adding one checkbox for those of us who want "Reply
> > to All" to really mean what it says, not "Reply to All but Myself" is a
> > perfectly reasonable request.
> >
> > --
> > David Hoover
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 20:49, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > Then why not setup a vfolder?
> > >
> > > Then threading won't be broken.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 22:33, Michael Leone wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 21:07, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > > Why would you ever want to read something you've written yourself?
> > > >
> > > > Because different people do things in different ways.
> > > >
> > > > > If you need to (to point out how wrong Y was in talking about X),
> > > > > there's always the sent folder.
> > > >
> > > > As he points out, that breaks the threading, since you then have to go
> > > > back and forth from one folder, to sent, back to the folder, etc, in
> > > > order to see the entire conversation at once, especially if any of the
> > > > parties snips the email - as I've done here.
> > > >  .
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> > > > Conform or be cast out.
> > >
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