GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 260995
Newsgroups: header in emails makes replies malfunction
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:57:16 UTC
Description of Problem: If an email has a Newsgroups: header in it (as is the case with some mailing lists, in particular Beyond Linux From Scratch when someone posts to the NNTP server and the post is then relayed out to the mailing list) when one clicks Reply for the _email_ Evolution will attempt to post an NNTP reply to an mbox: which just isn't going to work. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Email yourself something with an email containing the Newsgroups: header. 2. Select it in the message list pane for your inbox and try to reply to it. 3. That's all. Actual Results: Instead of the email having a To: field, it will have the Post-To: button with something like "mbox:/home/dagmar/.evolution/mail/local/blfs.support" as the value. Expected Results: It should attempt to reply to the sender. How often does this happen? All the time as far as I can tell. Additional Information: I'm currently recompiling 1.5.9.2 with --enable-nntp=no to make it explicit that it shouldn't have any NNTP support. I didn't specify either way at all for this compile, and the configure script help appears to indicate the default is to not enable it, so I would think it wouldn't even try to do this.
*** bug 265927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
the way reply works doesn't depend on what folder type the message lives in (in fact it can't depend on that because the folder types are all abstract so we can't tell the difference between nntp folders vs imap vs mbox vs maildir, etc) no idea how to solve this...
bug 266529 says, emptying the Post-To: entry and readding To: would be a workaround. However, that doesn't work, this error alert box is displayed: "Cannot send message: no recipients defined.."
retargetting from very ancient 2.1 milestones to just ancient 2.3 milestones. it just sucks to click several target milestone values. sorry for the noise.
*** Bug 306525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please see bug 306525 for some details, examples and discussion. * Bug 306525 comment 1 has an attachment 47253 [details] screenshot, to see the result. * Bug 306525 comment 3 offers some details how to reproduce this issue with the snippet given in bug 306525 comment 0. Possible solution (see bug 306525 comment 9): There is a filter to filter on source-account. Use this. If the source account is not a NNTP account, we never ever should post the reply to the group -- unless specifically requested by "Post Reply". Inheriting Cc's from that duplicate, setting Version properly.
Adding partha to Cc as well. Setting usability keyword. Vardhan: If not 2.5, then definitely 2.7 later, once it is available as a Target Milestone. This is not Future.
Still happens in evolution 2.26.3. The value of the Post-To field creates strange folders that cannot be deleted as described in bug 598249. In 2.28.x the situation is a little better. There is no Post-To and the To field is no longer greyed out, so one can manually add recipients. For more details about the current situation please take a look at my report in Red Hat bz: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528839
This is a violation of RFC 2076: "Followup-To: ... In e-mail, this header may occur in a message which is sent to both e-mail and Usenet News, to show where follow-up in Usenet news is wanted. The header does not say anything about where follow-up in e-mail is to be sent." http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2076#section-3.5
(In reply to comment #8) > In 2.28.x the situation is a little better. There is no Post-To and the To > field is no longer greyed out, so one can manually add recipients. From what I understand this bug report it is fixed in actual stable, thus I'm closing this. Feel free to reopen if I misunderstood it. Thanks.
Milan, it is not fixed in 2.28.2: Although the mail has a valid Reply-To, the To: field is empty when I choose reply. When I choose "Reply to all" I get the mailing list in the To: field but not the sender in CC as one would expect. To summarize: 1. The nntp header should not make the mail being handled differently, this means that 2. "Reply" should reply to Reply-To: and 3. "Reply to all" should Reply to Reply-To: and to From: directly. Please reopen, I don't have sufficient privileges.
OK, I firstly thought that empty To is a new thing, but thinking of it now you've right, it can be dealt with it in this bug report.
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