Thunderbird and reply-to-list

[Steve Lamb]

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> The obvious solution is to patch and compile TB yourself, but I can
> understand if you don't want to do that.

    Yup.  I've tried earnestly to leave such processes back in my Slackware
days.  :)

> Down at the bottom under "Nightly Builds". You can extract the archive
> to a folder in your $HOME, cd there, and run './thunderbird'.

    I'll give that a try, thanks.  :)

> Derivative being the keyword. ;)

    Well, that impression was they used the Debian packages and only touched
it up for release, not a complete fork as appears to be the case.

> I'd say the wisdom of applying every
> ergonomic patch available before it's fully tested is... debatable. Six
> one way half a dozen the other in this case I suppose, but I do see
> the logic behind waiting as a matter of policy. 

    I agree with you completely.  However in my, and Debian's defense,
Thunderbird's lack of reply-to-list is the number 1 wart discussed on
debian-user.  Debian's lists do not set reply-to so about every 20-30 days
some new Debian user comes onto the list and starts the old reply-to debate.

    No matter which side of the fence you come down on that debate one thing
is irrefutable.  Of the email clients regularly in use by Debian users
Thunderbird is the only client which lacks that feature.  It has lacked it its
entire life and there are bugs filed against it pretty much just as old to get
it fixed.  The patch in question only makes the extension possible and I think
it was in general release and used by many Debian users for quite a while
before the maintainer of Thunderbird proper started patching it into the package.

    So a small patch that was requested and endorsed by many different users
with, by their estimation, no negative impacts which addressed one of the
largest complaints about the client on the user list.  I think that is a good
definition of the exception to the general rule.  :)

    Anyway, off to try the nightly build.  Thanks again for the pointer.

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         Steve C. Lamb         | But who decides what they dream?
       PGP Key: 8B6E99C5       |   And dream I do...
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