On Friday 21 February 2003 23:17, Jack Coates wrote: > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:06, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > On Kmail I filter the mailinglist in a folder for that mailinglist. A > > right-click on that folder offers me a preferences menu and there I can > > tell "This folder contains a mailinglist" and fill in a reply-to for that > > mailinglist. After that is configured I can press "L" for List-reply. > > This should be possible in a similar way for all Linux-mail-clients. > > Since I have no evolution at hand I can't say how to do the same in that > > app. Maybe someone other can jump in here ? > > Ah. In Evolution it's right-click the message and choose Reply to List. > A fine workaround, though in either case (Evo or Kmail) the workflow is > unacceptable: >
Since I guess you can configure keyboard-shortcuts it could change to the following: > 1) decide to reply. > 2) click reply. <=== Hit "L" key allways on mailinglists > 3) write message. > 4) click send. > 5) realize that it didn't go to the list. <== not needed > 6) investigate why in "Sent". <=== not needed > 7) start a new reply using To-List workaround. <== not needed > 8) copy and paste from Sent into a new mail message. <== not needed > > Steps 5 through 8 of course very rarely get done, in which case the > answer doesn't get archived, the conversation thread is not public, and > the usefulness of the mailing list is decreased. Welcome to the real world, there are mailinglists there it would be a real problem since the mailinglist does not mangle the reply-to. Once you are in it to hit the "L" key you will be fine and not depend on others to have configured all right. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
