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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 94170] New: default 'reply' option should fallback to 'reply
From:       Bernd Wurst <bugzilla () bernd-wurst ! de>
Date:       2004-11-30 16:54:23
Message-ID: 20041130175421.94170.bugzilla () bernd-wurst ! de
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           Summary: default 'reply' option should fallback to 'reply to all'
                    instead of 'reply to sender'
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kmail-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: bugzilla bernd-wurst de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I don't think that everybody will agree to this but I thought a while about it and I like the \
idea... :-)

Anyway, I found out that KMail has a usability-problem for power-users.
When using mutt, one simply has to press 'g' for 'group reply' to answer all daily mail. \
Mail-Followup-To is used (and so are mailing lists with other power-users that set this header \
field), simple mail is replyed normally, 'cc-parties' can be done with this.  To achive these \
three cases in KMail, one has to press different buttons. 'reply to all' can not respect \
Mail-Followup-To because only the 'reply to list' function is there for this. On the other \
hand, 'reply to list' cannot work with simple messages because if no list is detected, an empty \
recipient field is set.

So there is an pseudo-intelligent 'reply' feature, that chooses 'reply to list' if a list is \
found and 'reply to sender' if not. This behaviour breaks 'cc-parties' because 'reply to \
sender' throws out all cc-field entries. This could be fixed if 'reply' would not fall back to \
'reply to sender' but to 'reply to all'. 

After thinking about this for a while, I could not find any disadvatages of that. 
There should be no change if one replies on single mail messages (if reply-to is handled \
correctly).

This improvement would make two things better in this world:
1. power users would only have to use *one single* reply function for (nearly) all mail \
messages 2. other KMail users would respect Cc entries set by the original poster. :)

Additionaly: mutt implements 'Mail-Followup-To'-handling in 'group reply' (which is 'reply to \
all') and does not provide an option to reply to *really all* mentioned addresses. The proposed \
solution for KMail would make it possible to do both. As long as I can see, KMail doesn't make \
a difference between 'reply to mailing list' and 'use Mail-Followup-to', but that's not a \
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