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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] "Reply" button functionality in KMail (especially with
From:       Alexander Gretencord <arutha () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-11-29 8:53:37
Message-ID: 200711290953.38815.arutha () gmx ! de
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On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > With the patch "Reply" will;
> > if "Folder holds a mailing list" is ticked do the same as "Reply to
> > list"; if not, do the same as "Reply to Author" button, except that
> > it will honour a mailing-list-munged reply-to address.
>
> Moreover, I don't think many people set the "folder holds a mailing-list"
> setting because it is totally unnecessary for sane mailing lists

Maybe this is where I as a user that follows KMail development for some years 
now, can second this. I see the "Folder holds a mailing list" as a last 
resort for lists that do not set apropriate headers. I don't set it on any of 
my list folders at all because hitting reply works as expected. I never liked 
the idea of hitting a different key to reply just because the folder happens 
to hold a mailing list.

After all, a mailing list is for discussion, so you should normally always 
reply to the list. If you need to reply to the author only, that's a special 
case. I think the OPs "list" is not a real discussion mailing list at all but 
more like a 'newsletter'.

> For those reasons I object against this magic behavior. Either leave it
> as it is now or make "Reply" become an equivalent of "Reply to Author".

Please, please don't even think about making reply behave like reply to author 
but leave it as it is, at least with default settings :) Reply should always 
do whats 'best for the situation' and that's obviously replying to a list, if 
a list is detected.

> To summarize: I propose to get rid of the smart "Reply" and instead
> make "Reply" (configurablely) act either as "Reply to Author" or as an
> improved "Reply to Mailing-List" (which would basically act just as the
> smart "Reply" currently acts).

If 'Reply' acts like 'Reply to List' for mailing lists (without having to set 
the 'this is a mailing list' option) that would make sense I think. This 
would leave current behaviour enabled for all the real discussion mailing 
lists, but if you get many newsletters like the OP you can configure KMail to 
reply to the author instead.

So for FWIW, please listen to Ingo :)

Just my 2 Eurocents

Alex
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