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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Mailing list and reply-to.
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-14 22:21:56
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On Friday 14 November 2003 20:35, Paul Sprakes wrote:
> On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 23:31, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Most likely the mailing list message has the mailing-list address
> > in the Reply-to header. Now if you told KMail the mailing-list
> > address then KMail sees that the Reply-to header contains the
> > mailing-list address and therefore uses the From address and not
> > the Reply-to address as recipient for the reply. But if KMail
> > doesn't know that the address in the Reply-to header is a
> > mailing-list address then it uses this address as recipient for the
> > reply. That explains the confusing behavior that you've noticed.
>
> Right, I understand now. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
>
> I'd like to make a couple of suggestions though:
>
> 1. Combine the "New message" and "New message to mailing list" into a
> single button with drop down menu (i.e. like the "Forward" button).
> The way it is now I have two buttons on the toolbar with exactly the
> same icon. The user also has to know about the existence of the "New
> message to mailing list" before they can add it to the toolbar.

You don't need both buttons. You can simply always use the "New message 
to mailing-list" button. If you are not in a mailing-list folder then 
it works just as "New message".

> 4. The default action for the "New message" and "Reply to" buttons
> should stay as they are now. But when the user goes into a mailing
> list folder the default actions should change to their mailing list
> equivalents.

We can't do this. In the past there was only a "New message" action 
which worked as "New message to mailing-list" if the user was in a 
mailing-list folder. But some people were too stupid for this feature. 
They sent private messages to mailing-lists. Therefore we had to 
introduce a separate "New message to mailing-list" action. Your idea 
would revert this split which is unfortunately no option.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestion. Suggestions 2. and 3. sound like a 
good idea.

Regards,
Ingo

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