On 6 Feb 2006, at 23:02, sofar wrote:
well here\'s another thing that bothers me then:
in roundcube when I reply to a mailinglist post, I HAVE to remember to
click \'reply-to-all\'. (We can go into a discussion that this is
silly
as I don\'t want to reply to multiple people, because the mail came
only
from one address and was forwarded, hence it should go to either one
of them, not just a random one)
The mail came from a user on a mailing list -- you're either replying
to all the people on that list or the sender of the mail to which you
are replying.
If I don\'t clik \'reply-to-all\' then I have no way to find out
what the
original mailinglist address was, because it\'s no longer displayed
in one
of the fields above the text you just typed. If I want to go back
to the
original mail, I have to close (save a draft - otherwise my text I
typed
is gone completely!) and retreive the mail address first. Then I can
compose again, or hit reply-to-all, but like I said this is something
that I don\'t do for any other mailinglist.
Perhaps you could rephrase this as a feature request? Most mailing
lists should add a List-Post header which tells you where to send
addresses; it should be fairly trivial to add the code to look for
this and add a caution message for those users who are used to their
list admin munging reply-to headers.
Oh yeah, BTW, the reply-er still has a choice of changing the
addressees
when the mailinglist sets the \'reply-to\' header. It\'s called the
\"To:\"
field (\"Recipient\" in roundcube) and anyone can modify it.
Hmm... So, if someone hits reply and gets the list as their To:
address then what? They have to save as draft, get the original
message, check the sender, then restore the draft and change the
address. This problem exists both ways and experienced list users are
used to it behaving the way it does. Note that this doesn't
necessarily make it any better, just more widely accepted as The
Right Thing.
Why not write a patch which makes RoundCube behave in your preferred
way, offer it for public download, and see how popular it is? Fame
and fortune no doubt await the author of this patch.
Good luck,
Craig
ps you seem to be having no problem replying to the list now --
perhaps this problem has fixed itself?
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