David E. Ross wrote:
On 12/3/2017 8:27 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Lately I've noticed that SM 2.49.1 doesn't handle listserv replies as
expected.
When the message to which I'm replying has the following parameters:
From: <Poster's Name>
To: <List Address>
Sender: <List Address>
Reply-To: <List Address>
simply clicking "Reply" or using the equivalent keyboard shortcut CTRL-R
composes a reply to the individual poster and not to the list. I have to
consciously decide to reply to the list by pulling down that choice from
the "Reply" button or from Message | Reply to List.
This is different from the previous behavior, where a simple reply went
to the list and I had to consciously choose if I wanted to take it
off-list. It's unexpected and annoying that SM overrules an explicit
Reply-To: address and forces delivery to the From: address.
I'd like the old behavior back. Can I choose that in about:config or
some obscure pref? Or do I need to file a bug?
Thanks.
I believe this is bug #1392371 against Thunderbird's component Message
Compose Window. Since SeaMonkey uses the same (or approximately the
same) code as Thunderbird, this is likely also seen in SeaMonkey. A fix
in Thunderbird is already available, but I have no idea when it will be
included in SeaMonkey.
See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392371>.
OK, two comments:
1) I've subscribed to listservs for decades, but only noticed this
behavior in the past week (since installing 2.49.1). The bug says it
goes back to 2016.
2) The fix says the new key mail.override_list_reply_to in about:config
fixes the bug, and when I toggled it to "false" it did indeed work. Thanks.
I still think it should work correctly out of the box; how many end
users are going to figure this out? More than one percent? The easiest
way is to make "false" the default.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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