On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:46:24 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Alan G Isaac 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

AGI> Choosing from the menus (yuck!)
AGI>   Message.Reply.Reply_to_sender
AGI> uses the Reply-To field rather than
AGI> (what I would have expected)
AGI> the From field for the source of
AGI> the address.  Is this the right 
AGI> behavior? 

 Well, normally, yes: Reply-To overrides From - this is what it is there
for. However in combination with the mailing lists redirecting the replies
to them I'm less sure...

AGI> (E.g., isn't this what
AGI> pressing R already does, except that
AGI> that leaves some options available.)

 Without Reply-To they're different. I.e. if I do "Reply to sender" to your
original message only your address is used. If I press 'R', the reply goes
to the list because my "Default reply kind" is set to "List" in the compose
options page for the Mahogany folder.

AGI> I want to be able to reply to the sender
AGI> of a message to a discussion list that
AGI> places the list address in the Reply-To field.
AGI> The Reply_to_sender option, I think, should
AGI> be the way to do this.

 Ok, I'll do this.

AGI> In any case, can we
AGI> please have a quick keystroke combination for this?

 Which one? All reasonable ones seem to be already taken...

AGI> (I find the Pine approach---a short dialogue after
AGI> one presses R---acceptable, but there's got to be
AGI> a better way?)

 I *hate* Pine approach. I always know in advance what do I want to do and
I find it incredibly annoying that it asks me the extra questions instead
of allowing me to directly reply to whom I intend. A better way is IMHO
Mahogany approach, in all modesty: bind 'R' to the action you want to be
the default (by setting the "Default reply kind" option) and then you can
always change the recipients in the composer by using the choice controls
there. It's still not the *best* way though - but I simply don't know which
one would this be.

 Regards,
VZ


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