"David W. Jones" <[email protected]> writes: > I've been on lists (using other mail clients where someone is > screaming that "REPLY SHOULD GO TO THE LIST!!!" while someone else is > screaming "REPLY SHOULD GO TO THE POSTER!!!" even while others are > fighting over whether a reply should go to both the list and the > poster or to just one or the other. And those aren't Yahoo Groups. And > two different lists might have things set up differently.
The standards are pretty clear that a list setting Reply-To: to the list is not ok. But some people prefer lists set up to abuse reply-to and agreed that there is no agreement :-) > Makes me think that there's no one universal "right" way. So perhaps a > setting somewhere so user could select their desired option? Asking > for that to be something specific to an individual list would be tough > to implement, yes? Aside from the problem that when a list sets reply-to, the reply-to that might have been set by the original poster is lost, a good approach is to ignore reply-to headers when a mailinglist is known to insert them. I have my main mail client (gnus) set up to ignore reply-to headers on all IMAP folders that start with "lists". That makes "reply" go to the sender, like I think it should, and "reply-all" go to both sender and list. There could also be an option so that the reply option goes to the list if the MUA thinks it is a list. I think that's a bad thing to do, but it would be nice for people who like that should have the client-side choice. List-Post is another thing; it makes sense to me to use that as the sole destination for the reply-all action (but not reply). With k-9, ignoring reply-to could be a per-folder option. It could also have a global setting and attempt to detect if reply-to matches list-id or list-post and then ignore it. I don't use k-9 for list mail much, because I try hard not to read list mail on my phone. With all of this, the problem of lists rewriting From to be other than the sender remains. If they rewrote [email protected] into user%[email protected] and forwarded things they got unicast, that would be ok, but they tend to use the list address in the from, so that "reply" goes to the list, when it should go only to the sender. I don't see a way to fix this client-side, other than also refusing to use From: when it seems to be the list, if "reply" is selected. Or perhaps extracting the address from the comment. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
