Ubuntu-Users and Reply-to-List

[Cef]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 12:28, David M. Carney wrote:
> Hmmm. In Kmail 1.7.91 (I know, it's apples and oranges comparing Mutt to
> Kmail) I find that I have several options.
>
> Plain "Reply" usually replies to the list. "Reply to Author" literally
> replies only to the poster at whatever email address they claim to be
> mailing from.

"Reply" tries to figure out the best option. First tries to figure out if it's 
a mailing list, if not, then it tries the Reply-to: field, and if all else 
fails, it falls back to the From: field.

"Reply to Author" uses the address in the From: field.

> "Reply to all" will do both.

...And try to remove any duplicates...

> "Reply to mailing list" usually comes up with an unaddressed email window.
> Probably because of the way the Ubuntu mailing list is setup.

It should just work (and it did for me).

There is also a tab in the Kmail properties for mailing list handling, that is 
usually disabled by default. Enabling that and using the "Detect 
Automatically" button will scan mail headers in that list for List-Id: (and 
the like) fields. On the folder itself you'll get a "New message to Mailing 
List...." dialog too. This may need to be populated for "Reply to 
Mailing-List" to work.

Of course, this doesn't so much help with the problem as show what many sane 
email clients do. Really, Reply-to: is just a right pain, but if more clients 
actually handled it better (particularly Outlook*) and provided some sort of 
mailing list support, then it wouldn't be so much of a problem.

-- 
 Stuart Young - aka Cefiar - cef at optus.net