[Bug 293033] New: Reply-To overrides From when replying to sender/all

[kavol]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293033

           Summary: Reply-To overrides From when replying to sender/all
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.8
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kavol at seznam.cz


Version:           4.8 (using KDE 4.8.0) 
OS:                Linux

If an incoming email has Reply-To set, like for example:

From: Sender Name <name at example.com>
To: list for announcements <announce_list at example.com>
Reply-To: discussion_list at example.com

trying to reply to the author (from) sets To address to the Reply-To address
instead of the author's address, i.e. "discussion_list at example.com" instead of
"name at example.com"

Also when trying to use the "reply to all" feature, the sender address is
omitted, i.e. the list of addresses does NOT contain "name at example.com"

There is no way to send the answer to the sender and not to Reply-To address
except for deleting the prefilled address from the reply and entering the
sender's address manually.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see above, get an email with Reply-To set

1. hit "r" on it and examine the message being composed
2. hit "a" on it ...
3. hit "shift+A" on it ...

Actual Results:  
1. "To" is set to "Reply-To" address - this is correct
2. "To" is set to "Reply-To" and "To" addresses
3. "To" is set to "Reply-To" address

Expected Results:  
1. the same - "To" is set to reply-to address
2. "To" is set to "Reply-To" and "From" addresses
3. "To" is set to "From" address

While it may arguable if the case 2. should include also the original "To",
i.e. using really all concerned addresses and not just a subset (when
"Reply-To" serves as a replacement of "To"), the most important thing is that
cases 1. and 3. have to differ. The "reply to author" function is chosen
explicitly when the reply should go to the sender, overriding the implicit
mechanism of chosing the address in standard reply.

Note that this has worked as expected until kmail 4.7.4, it got broken in
4.8.0.

p.s. my case is using this with mailinglist where other headers that I haven't
mentioned like "List-Post" may have some influence - if an exact reproducer
message is needed, I'll try to refine some

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