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

[Tom Albers]

Op Thursday 1 October 2009 11:55 schreef u:
> On Thursday 01 October 2009, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 September 2009, Martin Koller wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > When I use kmail -> Reply To Author, currently there is some Reply-To
> > > handling in the code (kmmessage.cpp).
> > > I ask myself: why is this done ?
> > > When I explicitely select to reply to the author, then wouldn't it be
> > > enough to use the "from" address for the reply ?
> > 
> > The RFCs say that a mail client should prefer the Reply-To address over
> > the From address. Usually, the author did specify a different Reply-To
> > address for a purpose.
> > 
> > > With the current implementation, I have the following problem:
> > >
> > > I make a comment on bugs.kde.org.
> > > Someone replies to that comment on bko, I receive a mail which has a
> > > Reply-To header "Reply-To: bug-control at bugs.kde.org" and a From
> > > header of the comment writer.
> > >
> > > I want to send the author of that comment another comment in private
> > > mail, so I select "Reply To Author", but: kmail still wants to send
> > > to bug-control at bugs.kde.org
> > 
> > I suggest to remove the Reply-To header from incoming Bugzilla messages.
> 
> We don't want that. The reply-to header makes it so that people simply 
> replying to the mail, will get the reply archived into bugzilla.
> 
> The -goal- is that it works like a mailing-list (default reply -> public,
> reply-to-author -> private). But maybe Reply-To isn't the right way for that?

>From what I understand from this thread, bugzilla messages are ok:
reply -> takes the reply-to header -> bug-control at bugs.kde.org

reply-to-author -> takes the reply-to-header too, which is wrong and should be fixed and that's what Martin and Thomas sugested.

> How can we change the mail headers so that it basically looks like a mailing-
> list named bug-control at bugs.kde.org? ;)

Hm. There is no need to change anything in bugzilla. Current implementation is right, right?

Toma
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