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

[Alexander Gretencord]

On Saturday 03 October 2009, Martin Koller wrote:
>> 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 ?

Maybe I can chime in as one of those "users not developers".

Who is the author of an email? I always thought that would be the entity 
listed in the From address field. The author can set the Reply-To field, in 
order to tell me that he wants me to reply to that address instead of 
his "real" address. With "Reply to Author" I expect to be able to override 
that and send to the guy in the From again, without having to right click on 
his name, delete addresses or manually add them.

Also, you could see it this way. The mail was really sent by the guy in the 
>From field, he just didn't use a regular email program to be a nice guy and 
notify other users of bugzilla of the changes he made. Instead, bugzilla did 
that for him. It's just a very useful automation of that task.


Alex
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