Re: [Evolution] Reply to

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 14:31 -0400, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> I'm active on quite a number of mailing lists, including some (eg
> gentoo-user) which, being somewhat targetted at newbies, force-set the
> Reply-To: header to the mailing list.
>
> This is moderately annoying because it goes against the way evolution is
> designed. Evo, acting like a proper mailer should,  a) respects the
> Reply-To header, and b) offers Reply to Sender, Reply to List and Replay
> to All options.
>
> The trouble is that if I actually *really* want to just send a
> one-to-one reply to the author of the message, I have to reply then
> manually copy and paste the address of the sender. Which is *really*
> silly given that there's a Reply to Sender, List, and All modality
> already. <sigh> It's not Evo's fault.
>
> Maybe a setting like "Ignore reply-to if reply-to is the same as To?"
>
> I imagine there would be objections like "too hard to detect mailing
> list, too specific and variable to model around, etc". 
> So, instead, howabout in the Reply block? In addition to {Reply to
> Sender, List, All} add "Reply to Sender (ignoring Reply-To header)". Ok,
> so that's the ugliest and least sensible menu item I've ever heard of. 

"Reply to Originator"?

> Suggestions?

AFAICT, after looking at the headers from emails on a couple
of Return-mangling list I'm on, Evo would have to look at "From:".

> Am I missing some convenient workaround/feature, or would this be useful
> to people? Am I the only one tripping over this?

I 2nd that suggestion.

It would be an incredibly useful feature.

> Maybe I should just unsubscribe from such lists :)

Unfortunately, they are too useful...

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Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>