Reply to snafoo

[Santiago Erquicia]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:11 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 10:57:54AM -0400, GR Gaudreau wrote:
> > I don't know if this has been brought up before,
> 
> It comes up on many mailing lists regularly, both those where Reply-To
> is munged and those where it isn't.
> 
> > but whenevr I hit the reply botton on Evolution (or KMail), the To:
> > field has the list member's address rather than the Ubuntu list
> > address itself. I have to manually change the address to reach the
> > list. Why is that?
> 
> This makes it possible to send private replies if you feel the need, and
> for someone to set their own Reply-To indicating their preferred reply
> address in situations where they aren't allowed to change From; munging
> Reply-To means you can't do either of these.
> 
> Good mailers have a "reply to list" function, and support
> Mail-Followup-To. To tell you the truth I don't know whether this
> particular definition of good includes either Evolution or KMail. :-)

Under evolution you can do it with right click over the message 

> 
> Googling for "reply-to considered" will find you essays expounding both
> viewpoints, and will reveal that the issue is not clear-cut and
> one-sided.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]
> 
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