On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 12:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 10:14 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Note: this is a comment on Evo itself, rather than the Evo list. > > > > As someone who posts quite a lot on this list, I'm forever having to > > deal with people replying to my personal address rather than the list > > address. Of course they should be using Reply To List (Ctrl-L) or even > > Reply-To-All (Shift-Ctrl-R) but occasionally they forget and use just > > Reply (Ctrl-R) so one has to remind them. I'm sure other frequent > > contributors find the same thing. > > > > An obvious solution to this is to do what Kmail does. When the message > > being replied to contains a List-Post header, Ctrl-R should do the same > > as Ctrl-L. There should also be a Reply-To-Author command for the rare > > case when the reply should be directed to the message Reply-To field, > > presumably the author's personal address. > > > > This would work on lists, including this one, which follow RFC-2822 and > > don't do "Reply-To munging". For those that do munge the Reply-To field, > > a reply to the author would require some editing, but that's already the > > case with these lists so nothing is lost. > > > > (Those who follow the Fedora Users list will know there's been a long > > thread about munging, which that list does do.) > > I've rethought this proposal in the light of comments by several people, > particularly David Woodhouse. This proposal supersedes the original and > seeks to minimize trauma and give some extra funcionality: > > When the message being replied to is *not* a list message (i.e. the > List-* headers -- specifically List-Post -- are not present), then > everything works as now, except that Reply To List (Ctrl-L) has the same > effect as Reply To All (Shift-Ctrl-R). > > When List-Post is present, Ctrl-L has the same effect as currently, i.e. > it replies to the List-Post address only. > > In all cases, Reply To Sender (Ctrl-R) works exactly as now. > > A new Reply To Author action (no shortcut) replies only to the message > originator, even when the message is from a munged list. Munged lists > are detected by comparing the Reply-To header with the List-Post header > (note that the former is an address while the latter is a URI). If they > don't match, do the same as Ctrl-R. If they do match, ignore Reply-To > and do the same as Ctrl-R.
Having read the extensive comments over the last day or two, I'd like to propose the following (this is a slightly modified version of my second proposal and is about as simple as I can make it and still cover the behaviour I'd like): Reply To List is bound to Ctrl-L as now, and has a toolbar button. When Ctrl-L is inactive, the button greys out. A Preference option allows Ctrl-L to fall back to Shift-Ctrl-R when the List-Post header is not detected. This implies that Ctrl-L (and the toolbar button) are always active. In all cases, Reply To Sender (Ctrl-R) and Reply To All (Shift-Ctrl-R) both work exactly as now. A new Reply To Author action (no shortcut, no toolbar icon) replies only to the message originator, even when the message is from a munged list. Munged lists are detected by comparing the Reply-To header with the List-Post header (note that the former is an address while the latter is a URI). If they don't match, do the same as Ctrl-R. If they do match, ignore Reply-To and do the same as Ctrl-R. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
