GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309690
need toolbar, context menu entries for reply to list
Last modified: 2006-08-26 07:01:51 UTC
Please describe the problem: To me, making "Reply All" perform a reply to mailing list where the original message was received from a mailing list seems sensible (bug 238200). Failing this, the only way to reply to a mailing list is by pressing Control-L. There must be an easy way to reply to a mailing list. If bug 238200 is a WONTFIX, then there must be a main toolbar item and a right-click context menu added for the same thing that Control-L does. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
"reply to list" has been removed in 2.2 from the context menu to get rid of those hundreds of items in the context menu. "ctrl + l" *IS* an easy way to reply to list. it's even more easy then using the context menu with a mouse since you have to use the keyboard to write your email directly after pushing "ctrl + l", so you do not have to change from mouse to keyboard. yeah, i know, many people aren't content with the decision, but that's normal when removing items... :-( WONTFIX, sorry. of course you can reopen this one here, but the missing context menu entry is a wontfix and the main menu button is already filed at bug 238200. sorry. but thanks for reporting, anyway...
From what I've reason on this issue tonight, I'm beginning to believe that users should correctly set Reply-To and the default Reply action should honor this setting (i.e. set the To field to the value of the parent message's Reply-To field). If not, possibly the Mail-Followup-To field should be the first preference and the Reply-To field the second. All I really want is for clicking on the big Reply button in the toolbar to do The Right Thing, which is, in order of preference: 1. send to the list and copy the sender (or send to the sender and copy the list) if the sender is not subscribed to the list and specified a preference to be explicitly included in the recipients by use of the appropriate common header 2. send to the list if the sender sent to the list and the sender is subscribed to the list 3. reply to all 4. reply to the sender There could be a "Reply Privately" or similar as a secondary action to explicitly mail only the sender (probably derived from the From address). As stated in bug 238200, such secondary actions can easily appear as a secondary list on a downward-facing arrow attached to the master Reply button. The current behavior results in me inadvertently abusing list etiquette and having to decide whether to click "Reply", "Reply All", and now also remember a third keyboard shortcut. I just want the defaults to be sane. Is there already discussion on this topic?
After a closer look at what Evolution does (and realising that the two actions are explicitly labeled "Reply to All" and "Reply to Sender"), I'm fairly satisfied with the current state of Evolution. I just have to retrain myself to prefer the "Reply to All" button over the "Reply to Sender" button. The main mailing lists that are a little problematic are the ones where there are a significant number of Mutt and KMail users who believe strongly in the Mail-Followup-To header. A case could be made for Evolution to first examine the Mail-Followup-To header as a higher preference field having the same purpose as the Reply-To header as currently implemented. Until then, those list users will have to tolerate the extra implied duplicate message when they send a message and I reply to it.