GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 536986
FReq/plugin: Catching mistaken replies to self
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:08:36 UTC
Hi, another proposal for the pile of niche features for the mentally cross-wired. :) I was downright delighted when via Johnny Jacob's attachment plugin, Evolution started to ask me for confirmation when I sounded like I tried to send a message that should have an attachment without actually attaching it. This feature request is another one of that category. Every now and then I want to correct myself in a mail, and go to dig out the sent message and hit 'reply', meaning that I want to reply to the thread, but still address the message to the other person. Faithfully following my literal instructions, Evolution composes and sends the reply to me only. Which I notice the next time I check my mail, and notice an unread message from myself. Could we get the same functionality for sending replies whenever the only recipient is one of the addresses on my From: list of options? A check at send-time would be quite sufficient for me, because I occasionally notice my error before that. Also, when composing a new message from scratch, typing in my own address probably means I want to mail myself (yes, I occasionally do that too), so those can safely be ignored. "Evolution has detected that you are replying to your own message in a thread. Did you mean to send the reply to the recipient of the previous message (x@foo)?" <change recipient to x@foo and send> <send as is> <cancel> [ ] Never ask this question again. (Possibly also indicating if there were multiple other recipients, which would indicate that a 'reply all' would be a good idea.)
'Reply all' is a good idea anyway, because it would actually do what you want regardless of whether there are multiple other recipients. If we do this, let's make it: ============================= Evolution has detected that you are replying to your own message. Did you mean to hit 'Reply to All' so that your new message goes to all the same recipients as the previous message? Or did you mean to send your new message just to yourself? [ ] Don't ask me again < Reply just to myself > < Reply to All > =============================
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