From kmail-devel Thu May 18 13:12:36 2006 From: "Mike Cohler" Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:12:36 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: "Reply" address behaviour for mails sent by Mailing Lists Message-Id: <3dd77c60605180612m24eb9172nc045ae14d51493c () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=114795797611150 There is a default behaviour that can cause difficulties that applies when hitting "reply" to a mail in the inbox that was sent by an original author to a mailing list in the event that the list does not generate a "Reply to" field in the mail it sends out. For the case in point I have been receiving mails from a member of a mailing list where the original author is listed in the From: field in the mail that the author sent to a mailing list, and I am one of the recipients of that list. Hitting "Reply" in this case goes to the list - whereas I would like to almost always send to the author. Some lists generate a "reply to:" field that is set to the original author when the list administrator sets it for default replies to go to the author. On the other hand if the list administrator sets default to reply to the list then a "Reply to:" field is set to send replies back to the list. This behaviour will vary depending on the list. In the case I am dealing with there is no "Reply to:" field sent out from the list. The default behaviour of kmail when there is no "Reply to:" field seems to be to send to the list address. It is certainly possible to use "Reply special" and select "reply to author" to get the compose window to set the author in the "To:" field. Has there been any discussion on the optimum default behaviour in this situation ? i.e for this specific circumstance to have the default behaviour set to reply to the author or the list? Which is the most common requirement ? I did try to find if there is a way to select/change the default behaviour but I have not been able to find how to do it. If anyone can tell me I would appreciate knowing how to do it. Any replies will be useful. Thanks Mike -- mike cohler _______________________________________________ KMail developers mailing list KMail-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail-devel