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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Ideas on Reply-To-List
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-30 11:59:10
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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".

That's what we'll do. But "Reply to Sender" is a new string. So this 
can't happen for KDE 3.2. I won't violate the string freeze because of 
this. Anyway, in the meantime I've added Reply to Mailing-list to the 
toolbar. So all users will see that it exists and will quickly adapt to 
use it for replying to a mailing-list message instead of using the 
not-always-working Reply which only works for mailing-lists which set 
the Reply-to header.

> 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.

After KDE 3.2 of course.

> 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.

A whole year? There will be an extra kdepim release about three months 
after KDE 3.2 (because of the groupware stuff). And AFAIK no major 
distribution will be released before this extra release (because 
they've all been released recently).

Regards,
Ingo

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