https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109069
--- Comment #17 from Ingo Klöcker <kloecker kde org> 2009-10-18 21:30:44 --- (In reply to comment #15) > Torgny, it is in reverse. > a) RFC does not state KMail "should", it shouts "SHOULD", so KMail better has > some _really_ good reason to ignore this KMail does have a really good reason to behave as it does: More consistent, reliable and predictable behavior. Whether a mailing list message has the Reply-to header set (by the mailing list) or not is totally opaque to the user (unless he checks the headers). Let's assume KMail would behave exactly as stated in the RFC (see Comment #11). In this case, if the user replied to a mailing list message (using Reply) the reply would be addressed to a) the mailing list if the mailing list has set the Reply-to header b) the From address if the mailing list did not set the Reply-to header This behavior is inconsistent (from the user's point of view) and totally unpredictable (unless the user looks for the Reply-to header before each reply). To get predictable behavior the user would have to use either Reply to List or Reply to Author depending on what he wants to do. The normal Reply would be useless for replies to mailing list messages due to it "erratic" behavior. KMail's current behavior makes the behavior of Reply more consistent, reliable and predictable because if the user replies to a mailing list message (using Reply) the reply would be addressed to a) the mailing list if the mailing list has set the Reply-to header, b) the mailing list if the mailing list did not set the Reply-to header, but it did set the standard List-Post header (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2369#section-3.4), c) the From address if the mailing list did set neither the Reply-to header nor the List-Post header Note that the real problem is all those mailing lists that set a Reply-to header. As soon as mailing lists stop doing this we will change KMail's behavior. Until then KMail's behavior will not change. > b) in 99% cases KMail violates the fields given in favor of 1% cases Is this your personal experience? When I reply to a mailing list message then I want the reply to go to the mailing list in 99.9 % of the cases. > c) and now simple use case -- what is worse: > > 1) send a public message to single person > 2) send a private message to public (the world) > > ? Yes, this risk does exist. But it's not caused by KMail's behavior, but by all those mailing lists setting the Reply-to header. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Kdepim-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-bugs
