[Kde-pim] Reply to Author != Reply to Author ?

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Saturday 03 October 2009, Martin Koller wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Saturday 03 October 2009 00:21:34 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > Ok, I understand. But therefore we have the "reply to" action,
> > > which I assume is what 99.9% of people are using when replying.
> >
> > Yes. Very true. They will either use "Reply" or "Reply All" (and
> > then optionally remove the undesired recipients). "Reply to Author"
> > and its counterpart "Reply to List" is for advanced users.
>
> So now I'm puzzled. If "Reply to Author" does the same as "Reply",
> what's then the usecase for the former ?

"Reply" tries to guess the replier's intention. If KMail identifies the 
message to be a mailing list message, then it will do a "Reply to 
List". Otherwise, it will do a "Reply to Author".

"Reply to List" and "Reply to Author" allow the user to overrule the 
automatism of "Reply".


> > > As said above: the current solution is not obvious.
> > > And I'm not the only one. At least there is
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104229
> > > probably also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118609
> >
> > I have commented on both bugs.
>
> Thanks. Is there a reason to still keep them open ?

I'm not sure. To fix bug 104229 KMail could additionally include the 
From address if the user does a Reply All and the message looks like a 
mailing list message (i.e. there's a List-* header or some commonly 
used non-standard mailing list header), but the message does lack a 
List-Post header, so that KMail cannot tell whether the address in 
Reply-to is the mailing list address or the sender's address.

I think 118609 should be closed as WONTFIX. I will do so together with 
some reasoning with respect to the message that was triggering 
the "wrong" (in the view of the reporter) behavior.


Regards,
Ingo
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