Bug 105203

Summary: Reply to List should fallback to reply to Author if Non-List message
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: John Andersen <jsamyth>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist CC: bjoern, luigi.toscano
Priority: NOR Keywords: junior-jobs
Version: 1.7.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description John Andersen 2005-05-06 20:54:03 UTC 
Version:           1.7.2 (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

I read many mailing lists I get used to pressing the L key to reply to the list.  

When you do this on a message that was NOT from a list it starts a new message with NO TO address at all.

I suggest it would be more friendly to reply to author and optionally WARN about the address than to just start an email with no address.

If there is only one reply target, even the warning seems arguably redundant, and it should just set up the reply address and carry on, but a warning would be less irritating than finishing a long response and hitting send only to find you have to go back and cut and paste the reply address in.

Yes, this is similar to other wish-list items about reply to list, but it is subtly different.  Kmail should never pop up a empty TO address on any kind of reply.  Especially when there is only one choice.  And yes, its a user problem for hittin the L key on a non list message.  Guilty as charged your honor. :-)
Comment 1 John Andersen 2007-06-22 21:29:44 UTC 
How about this?  Its been a while and no action.
If you read any mailing lists in kmail and learn the keyboard
reply keys I'm sure you encountered this. 

How hard would it be to get this fixed to reply to the
only possible reply address when no list address is
present?
Comment 2 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-21 12:05:48 UTC 
Confirmed.
Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 07:52:43 UTC 
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 4 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:41:39 UTC 
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.