John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 12 August 2006 15:02, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 10:52 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 12 August 2006 03:46, James Knott wrote:
In many e-mail programs, you can right click on the "From:" address and create a new message to that address or copy it. I've added this list to my address book and created a short nickname, so that I can easily create a new message.
Now, if they'd only fix the "Reply to:" problem. ;-) That too is easily fixed with proper mailer, rather than a web browser masquerading as a mailer.
Kmail makes list replies as easy as hitting the letter L, without the list havint to violate rfc2822.
Where is this subject-- that of the "proper" reply to a mailing list-- addressed in rfc 2822?
Also easily done in Evolution. <ctrl>L for list R for the person. assuming the list is handling headers correctly. Some need a reply to all and the list comes in the CC line hot the To:. Luckly those are few.
Kmail has one of those brain-dead regions as well. If you hit L (to reply to the list) out of habit but the message did not actually come from a list it is too dumb to substitute the sender address, and you end up with a message set up with NO adressee... What's up with that?
Doesn't it seem a bit ludicrous to have a rule which everyone is obligated to break by finding a work-around or by switching to a different (a so-called "proper") email client or by fixing it manually with every email sent? The rationale for this rule seems to be, "What server configuration can be set in order to inconvenience as many people as possible?" Not to worry though. This topic will probably die off in twenty or thirty years. Maybe not... but probably.