On 06/23/2017 11:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 06/23/2017 11:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 06/23/2017 05:39 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> Having mentioned the TB subject, I also have "problems" with the
>> upstream versions of TB I use when interacting with this mail list.
>> TB has "reply", "reply all" and "reply list", where
"reply all" works
>> as expected, whereas if I use "reply" to say respond to your email
>> then that build the reply to send it to you and not the mailing list,
>> so to reply to the mailing list I have to use "reply list", and I
>> have never been able to work out why and whether its a mailing list
>> issue or a TB issue.
>
> It seems to be a recent change to the list that the reply-to is now
> set to the original sender instead of the list address. But thanks to
> you mentioning the reply to list option in TB, I just noticed that
> button and then found the shortcut key is CTRL-SHIFT-L for that. I
> will train myself to use that in future.
I just checked the email headers and the reply-to still points to the
list! I have discovered that it is a change in TB after all. That is
rather annoying. See
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.0/releasenotes/ :
"When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From
header ignoring Reply-to header"
Sorry for blaming the mailing list...
Thanks for researching that. Having a "Reply-To" header in the first
place is specifically for this sort of use (lists and such). How very
incredibly annoying!
<soap>
I see absolutely no reason to force people to "train themselves" to do
something completely different than they've done before--especially when
it's to accommodate a package's apparent violation (or at the least,
misuse) of the standard. Sheesh! Time to look for a new mail client.
</soap>
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