On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:34:33 +0000 Charles Johnson <cehjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/14 11:23, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > It's default smart reply is reply to list, and there is seemingly > > > no option to change that. > I don't quite know if there's such a thing as a 'smart reply' but > when i click the Reply button in Thunderbird, up comes David > Woodhouse (who sent this) as addressee. There is certainly such a thing as 'Smart Reply'. As you seem to be using Debian or at least Icedove then it may function differently if you're using the Stable branch and Debian doesn't backport IceDove updates like it does Iceweasel. So if you're on a old version the feature might not be present. In my reply to David I stated that behaviour relates to Thunderbird for Mac. However, having just tested it in Xubuntu I see Thunderbird is configured exactly the same way as Mac so it is likely this is a built in feature of Thunderbird. The Smart Reply button is by default to the right of the reply button and has a small dropdown arrow to the right of it. Check yours again to see if it's present. The behaviour appears to operate as follows: 1) If the reply is sent by sender Bob directly to receiver Alice by placing her in the 'To:' field, and other receivers like Mike and James get Cc'd in the 'Cc:' filed, smart reply will default to 'Reply All'. If the List is Cc'd too then the behaviour remains the same, Reply All is the default. 2) If any 'To:' field contains the List address then the behaviour of the Smart Reply button switches to offer 'Reply to List' and you must select 'Reply All' from a dropdown, regardless if there are other addresses in the 'To:' or 'Cc:' fields. An illustration of this is the reply David sent to me, to which you are replying. That was sent directly to me and Cc'd the list, so the Smart Reply offers 'Reply All'. Your reply to David to which I am now replying was to David AND the list, so the Smart Reply offers 'Reply List'. Ordinarily I wouldn't want to add noise to what is a get_iplayer list but if email clients are also 'hijacking' behaviours then it's little wonder people get confused as to the expected bahaviour between how lists are different lists are setup. Having read through the voluminous chatter about how this list is setup I've now come down firmly in its favour and realise that in some part my email clients have been obfuscating things. Claws Mail even seems to hijack the reply function to send to the list when using the default 'reply to message' option, though thankfully you can separate that out to 'reply to sender' and 'reply to list' in separate buttons (which I've now done). If you want to 'fix' Thunderbird, you can install the 'CompactHeaders' add on and that will allow you to customise the message toolbar to explicitly add 'Reply Add' to the available buttons. Well, now I've thoroughly bored you and everyone else but I have actually learnt a lot about how this stuff works and taken back control of my email clients. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer