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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 12:21:06
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On Sunday 30 November 2003 00:16, Roger Larsson wrote:
> [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?

The corresponding bug report has been closed as INVALID. I don't think 
it makes much sense to vote for something that we'll anyway implement 
after KDE 3.2.

Regards,
Ingo

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