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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Ideas on Reply-To-List
From:       Roger Larsson <roger.larsson () skelleftea ! mail ! telia ! com>
Date:       2003-11-29 23:16:36
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[Noticed that kmail@kde.org had been lost somewere...]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 23.05, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Sat November 29 2003 17:28, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > The most relevant sentense is: "When the "Reply-To:" field is present,
> > it indicates the mailbox(es) to which the author of the message
> > suggests that replies be sent."
> >
> > The author (!!!) of the message. The mailing-list software is not the
> > author of a message. Therefore there's nothing wrong with an email
> > client that tries to figure out what the _author_ of the message
> > wanted. In fact one could argue that mailing-list software that sets
> > the Reply-to header is violating RFC 2822 because it makes it
> > impossible for the receiving email client to figure out the real intent
> > of the author.
>
> If you want to be anal about this I then I suggest you create "Reply",
> "Reply to Sender", "Reply to List" and "Reply to All". Put them all under a
> single toolbar button (like the check-mail button) with a simple click
> resulting in "Reply". Reply then defaults to "Reply to List" when a
> list-with-reply-to-set has been detected and "Reply to Sender" in other
> cases. Oh, and you can add a bunch of configuration options to specify how
> "Reply" should work.

I like that solution.
>
> And whatever you do, I suggest you do it right the first time (in KDE 3.2
> that is), instead of delaying it till a later release. There is really no
> excuse for asking your users to put up with half thought out stuff for a
> whole year.
>

Where is the bug report to vote for?
(Yes, I concider this a bug - you can easily end up in a situation where
 you think that you have responded to all but have not... And the receiver
might not notice either.)

/RogerL

-- 
Roger Larsson
Skellefteå
Sweden
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