On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:30:46AM -0700, Rob Miller wrote: > Robert Marianski wrote: >> I'm forwarding this to the listen dev list, since it seems more >> appropriate here. >> >> Listen always sets the Reply-To header to the mailing list. Currently >> there's no way to toggle that. >> >> But we can certainly add a way to toggle this. I'm not sure if we'd want >> to expose this through the ui though. There are other settings that I'd >> put into this category as well. Maybe an advanced settings section? > > i'm not necessarily averse to putting this in the UI... i've been on a lot > of mailing lists over the years, and their reply-to behaviour is something > about which people can get fairly religious at times, it's not a bad knob > to expose. the whole listen UI could use some love anyway. > > even before that, though, i'd say we should change the default behaviour. > i think the ideal default would be for 'reply' to go to the list, and > 'reply-all' to go to the list, the original senders, and any other To: or > Cc: recipients. i'm not very familiar w/ how mail clients interpret > message headers, though... anyone know if there's a way to tell clients > that this is the desired behaviour? > > -r
Ideal default is up for debate, which is why it's become so religious. :) Some would argue that reply should go to just the sender, and reply-all tacks on everybody. There's an rfc that talks a little bit about this (section 4.4.4): http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt I'm not sure why reply-all in some clients doesn't add in everybody. I'm able to choose with mine. Maybe there's a setting in clients that controls that. Listen sets the Reply-To header to the mailing list itself. This explains why replying goes to the list. It doesn't look like the rfc specifies anything at all about reply to all behavior. It does mention that Reply-To should supersedes sending to the from though. I'm not sure we can get the behavior that Rob mentioned above, but if we removed the Reply-To header, then most clients would have reply go to just the sender (not including the list) and reply to all would set the To with the sender and cc the list. Currently reply sends a message to the list. Thoughts? -- Robert -- Archive: http://www.openplans.org/projects/listen/lists/listen-dev/archive/2008/08/1219256437294 To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions.
