GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 244791
Support for Mail-Followup-To header
Last modified: 2021-05-19 13:23:05 UTC
Please consider supporting the Mail-Followup-To header as discussed here: <http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html> This header is used by people who don't wish to receive duplicate mail, and Evolution's lack of support for this header would help stop follow-up mistakes. As a friendly reminder Branden Robinson of the Debian project expresses it this way via a form letter: "Many people, myself included, use the Mail-Followup-To message header, which is honored by mail user agents such as Mutt to control the distribution of replies to mailing lists; using such a header, a person can easily indicate that he does (or does not) want to be send copies of replies to his message. You may want to use an MUA that honors this header, as it is in fairly wide usage on the Debian mailing lists, and may help you avoid mistakes resulting in inadvertent violations of Debian's Mailing List Code of Conduct." Thanks, Adam
Clearly the second paragraph should have read: This header is used by people who don't wish to receive duplicate mail, and Evolution's support for this header would help stop follow-up mistakes.
this ietf drums draft standard expired in 1998.
There's no way we could get this header supported in Evolution, at least on the receiving side? Many modern MUAs *do* support it: http://www.leptonite.org/mft/software.html (GMail is not listed in this table, but it supports Mail-Followup-to as well)
Why exactly was this bug marked as “not a bug”? It might be an enhancement request but it's definitely not resolved.
Check bug 754733.
(In reply to Yves-Alexis Perez from comment #4) > Why exactly was this bug marked as “not a bug”? It might be an enhancement > request but it's definitely not resolved. It was closed because "this ietf drums draft standard expired in 1998." But, I will reopen to request that the current maintainers review whether it is desirable to support nowadays.
*** Bug 754733 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm interested in support for this as well; this isn't just a usability issue for Evolution, but for other people interacting with Evolution users via mailing lists. Note that there are two issues here: respecting Mail-Followup-To when replying to mail, and making it possible to set Mail-Followup-To. The former is more important; the latter would be nice but should not block implementation of the former.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new enhancement request ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.
(In reply to André Klapper from comment #9) > If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent > and supported software version, then please follow > https://wiki.gnome.org/Community/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines The proper link seems to be: https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
This is still interesting for me. Created a new issue at: - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1493
(In reply to Andres Gomez from comment #10) > The proper link seems to be: > https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines Thanks for pointing this out. Some wiki maintenance happened today and we forgot to add necessary redirects. Fixed.