GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 238200
change reply to all to reply to list
Last modified: 2010-07-30 10:07:02 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Normal Version: 1.2.1 Synopsis: Default reply to list isn't reply-to-list Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: Description of Problem: Reply to list messages does not select reply to list by default Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Reply to list by default in reply button How often does this happen? Additional Information: Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
it's working for me... Can you ellaborate a little?
Please REOPEN this report when you add your comments.
When I'm reading a message that come from a list and click on reply button evolution send a reply-to original sender, not to the list. We have to select "reply to list" from "action menu" to reply to the list. I remember that the original evolution has this default behavior.
uh... there is no reply-to-list on the toolbar you are hitting reply-to-*all*
I'd like to reopen this, albeit for a different reason: The Ctrl+R shortcut and the toolbar button should be reply to list by default when the message is from a list, since it is by far the msot common case. The toolbar button could be made into a multi-button (like the “new” button).
reply to all is far more common for me. so you can't just say it is more common to reply to list (i never use it, ever). i dont think this will ever get changed
still valid in 2.3.4
I really want some kind of sane, easy reply to list functionality, preferably as a toolbar icon. Having a capability that is difficult to find, not available as a contextual action, and not mouse accessible to me defeat the primary reason for using a graphical application. The clear preference is for "Reply All" or "Reply Group" to reply to a list. A fallback option is to add a separate "Reply List" button (bug 309690), but that was WONTFIXED. Not Zed, On mailing lists, there is in my opinion seldom a good reason to send a message with the original poster as the "To" and the list as the "CC" since the poster is typically subscribed to the list. I know I don't like getting duplicate messages when I post to a list. I would welcome some further comment on what you usually do when replying to a mailing list and why you believe your behavior is the preferred one.
We need one of: Bug 244791 (Support for Mail-Followup-To header) Bug 234608 (Add "Reply to List" to the toolbar) Bug 238200 (change reply to all to reply to list) Bug 309690 (need toolbar, context menu entries for reply to list) to make mailing lists not suck in Evolution, but they're all marked as (or headed for) WONTFIX. It's probably true that the people most likely to care enough to advocate these fixes are also the ones with a background in a text-mode mailer such as Mutt or Gnus, and can thus be contented with only a keyboard shortcut, but I really don't think that's good enough in a graphical mailer.
Requested at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/33830 as well.
This BUG was posted at 2003-02-17. I decided to move to kmail 2 years ago and trust me that I'm very happy w/ this software. You may find all Evolution's functionality plus it recognize list as a expected, not only reply to list by default, you may have several identities and then select the from account to use in your list folders, just press "r" or "l" and that's all flaks. No more rejections because the from is not subscribe No more private mail exposition No more peoples not complaining to receive emails direct to their personales accounts kmail works on gnome too. P.D. I conserve my hopes of which evolution and the rest of which they do not support lists of suitable form someday does it
Bumping version to a stable release.
Another vote here for a contextually-available 'reply to list' button on the toolbar. IMHO the most sensible way to add this to the UI would be for the 'reply all' button to become a 'reply to list' button when list headers are detected... there's _very_ rarely any reason to reply to the original poster AND the list, people only do it because they don't have a reply-to-list button.
It would also be nice if 'reply' became 'reply to sender'* at the same time - then the function of both buttons would be clear and distinct. * going to 'reply to' if that's not the list-post address, and 'from' if 'reply-to' matches 'list-post' (i.e. has been munged)
Use Control+L. What is this report about? The original request is WONTFIX. Is this now about having an icon in the toolbar?
"Use Control+L." Way to miss the point of every person who has replied to this. Comment #9 explicitly addressed this unhelpful non-solution, presumably because they knew it was inevitably going to be suggested by someone sooner or later. A frequently-used feature only being accessible via keyboard shortcut is not really optimal in a GUI application. "Is this now about having an icon in the toolbar?" As clearly stated above by several people, this bug is requesting that when list headers are detected, one of the reply buttons on the menu bar should be 'reply to list'. That's what it's always been about. Further to that requirement, I think there is a majority of comments in favour of achieving this by changing the 'reply to all' button into a 'reply to list' button at such times, as you don't usually need 'reply to all' when you're replying to a list email (other than that people currently use it because the more suitable 'reply to list' is not available to them as a button).
(In reply to comment #16) > when list headers are detected, one of the reply buttons on the menu bar > should be 'reply to list'. Changing icons in the toolbar dynamically is not allowed by the Human Interafce Guidelines. Greying out is an option. > Further to that requirement, I think there is a majority of comments in favour > of achieving this by changing the 'reply to all' button into a 'reply to list' > button at such times Again, changing the Reply to All button to Reply to List in case of detecting mailinglist headers is not allowerd by the HIG.
Hrm, I see. Okay, so the options are adding another button, which I can understand a reluctance to do (and has been WONTFIXed before as bug 234608), or maybe the suggestion from comment #5 for the second reply button (currently reply to all) to be a multi-function button instead, similar to the 'new' button. The default behaviour of that button does change contextually, so presumably that's something which is allowed by the interface guidelines. Are there any other options you can think of to present a GUI user with one-click access to the reply to list feature when reading a list email?
I think these fixes should help which add 'group reply' in toolbar. Group reply has two options reply to all and reply to list. http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=21b0925061702c0c2a6ee30819c739409bba39d2 http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/commit/?id=51a41db621693114f5ee60d48e7e6442fc85fcc4
Cool! Never thought I'd see this bug actually addressed!! Is that first patch accepted, or does it have to go through an approval process first? I vote for it! :)
Closing this as obsolete since the issues was solved under bug #624204.