Hi, Recently I missed a mail, for only some days fortunately, but knowing myself I might have missed a lot more this way: this mail was an answer on a mailing list, to a mail I sent there, and it didn’t include me in either the “To:” nor the “Cc:” header, thought the user (whose user-agent^Wx-mailer [1] header teached me they used Evolution) refered to me using “you” and “your” in their mail body. The mail only included the mailing-list address in the “To” header. I’m subscribed to a lot of mailing-lists and they get sorted in a lot of folders I rarely inspect.
Through experience, I ended considering Primary Recipients (those in “To”) of a mail are those whom you refer using “you” and “your”, while the auxiliary ones (those in “Cc”) are whom you don’t, while still desire aknowledging the message. In this situation, I’d have expected to receive a mail with me in the “To” header, and the mailing-list address in the “Cc” (and eventual previously present-here addresses), as my current user-agent do with the command “wide reply” (by opposition with the simple reply which just do the same as your “reply in private” functionality). However, checking in Evolution, there is no command to do a such thing. Either there is “reply to all”, whose utility may still be to address everybody in the discussion, or “reply to list”, which may be useful to “reply in private to the list, outside of the knowledge of eventual participants). The problem here is “reply to the list” is not the canonical standard thing most people will want to do, it is just the complementary opposite of “reply privately to the sender”: “reply privately to the list”. I think there should be a “reply to list and sender” (or differently named) feature that does answer to the list while staying addressed at the sender, as does my current user-agent with “wide reply”. I’m aware GNOME project particularely cares about ergonomy, usability/accessibility and simplicity. Then, without necessarily adding one or two actions, it may be the default (with tool-bar butter, highest in context menu) action. But that default behavior should be important for users who are not used to mailing-lists usages. In fact, sometimes, you want to write to a mailing-list without being interested in all the threads, so you don’t subscribe, and it is then important to add sender address in the “To” header. Fearing that people or User-Agent don’t automatically, for instance, I usually subscribe to all mailing-lists I write to (I might become interested in their content anyway), but I end with a lot of mail not ever reviewed then (I need a RDBM and filtering/mixing/priorization heuristics in my user-agent I believe). Thank you, and sorry for verbosity, it is because I believe there is much to say to the least required, which usually is the most important, and this matters to me. [1] Why X-Mailer instead of User-Agent? <y8u5pt0f7ejn.sdo.xxuns.g6....@galex-713.eu>< _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list evolution-hackers@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers