Re: [Evolution] Reply for list messages should go back to the list

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 17:48 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 12:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > When the message being replied to is *not* a list message (i.e. the
> > List-* headers -- specifically List-Post -- are not present), then
> > everything works as now, except that Reply To List (Ctrl-L) has the same
> > effect as Reply To All (Shift-Ctrl-R).
> >
> > When List-Post is present, Ctrl-L has the same effect as currently, i.e.
> > it replies to the List-Post address only.
>
> That can be rephrased as simply "enable the Reply-to-list option even
> when not looking at a list message". Or, in 'diff -up' form:

Sure, I was trying to be very explicit.

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> But if you want a key-combo which does this "reply to all or list"
> thing, then I suspect you'd do better to use Ctrl-Shift-R and the patch
> in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624204#c8 for that.

That's different. Consider a list message with a CC line. Reply To List
replies only to the list. Reply To All replies also to the CC
recipients. Both are valid options.

> Otherwise we'll get users being confused that the 'Reply to list' menu
> item is enabled even on non-list messages.

The text can change to Reply To All, keeping the shortcut. Sure, that
gives two shortcuts for the same action (Ctrl-L and Shift-Control-R) but
it wouldn't be the first time, e.g. in mail mode both Ctrl-N and
Shift-Control-M bring up the new message composer.

> > In all cases, Reply To Sender (Ctrl-R) works exactly as now.
> >
> > A new Reply To Author action (no shortcut) replies only to the message
> > originator, even when the message is from a munged list. Munged lists
> > are detected by comparing the Reply-To header with the List-Post header
> > (note that the former is an address while the latter is a URI). If they
> > don't match, do the same as Ctrl-R. If they do match, ignore Reply-To
> > and do the same as Ctrl-R.
>
> That's a really good idea, and I'd probably make an option for the
> "normal" reply to do that. After all, that's what the normal reply
> option is *supposed* to do.

Hmm, a "de-munging" MUA. I'll reserve judgment on that one :-)

poc