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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 18 October 2009, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 12 October 2009, Daniel Black wrote:
> > On Monday 12 October 2009 08:40:37 Martin Koller wrote:
> > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:12:14 Martin Koller wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 04 October 2009 23:26:20 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > > > "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".
> > > >
> > > > according to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109069
> > > > this seems to be something users do not like.
> > > > (Ingo, you have already set another issue as a dup of this one,
> > > > so I assume you agree on this beahavior being incorrect,
> > > > right?)
> > > >
> > > > I suggest the following patch, which removes the check for a
> > > > mailinglist header on a smart-reply:
> > >
> > > A discussion with Thomas McGuire resulted in keeping the way as
> > > it is now,
> >
> > good
>
> Exactly. Not keeping it would lead to thousands of misdirected
> replies. Due to all those mailing lists setting a Reply-to the user
> cannot expect that using Reply will send the reply to the sender.
> Therefore it's much better to make using Reply for mailing list
> messages send the reply to the mailing list even if Reply-to is not
> set.

Note that I have filed a feature request for making the behavior of 
Reply configurable. Hopefully, it's implementation will final put an 
end to this annoying discussion. 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211014


Regards,
Ingo
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