Bug 167068

Summary:	support for Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To headers
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.9.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
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Description Martin Steigerwald 2008-07-20 11:15:15 UTC

Version:           1.9.9 (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

On a discussion about using a Reply-To to the poster on a list I came to the conclusion that one use of this would be to get a Cc. But then it appears to be better to use a Mail-Followup-To header[1].

However I did not find a way to try this out with KMail cause KMail doesn't appear to allow me to actually set that header - or any custom header at all.

There are several related bug reports:
- Improve Reply-To Mailinglist (bug #71307), especially the comment from Ingo Klöcker https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71307#c7

And loosely related:
- Custom headers per message: bug #59478 
- Custom headers per identity: bug #25315 
- Costum headers per template: bug #148407 
- Use custom headers from command line (bug #89882)

But I think Mail-Followup-To and Mail-Reply-To should get special support. KMail should allow me to set those headers easily. And it should respect Mail-Followup-To when replying to mailinglist and Mail-Reply-To when replying to regularily (reply to poster).

[1] http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html

Comment 1 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2009-04-04 17:09:43 UTC

You can do this in kde 4.2.2. Settings-> configure kmail-> composer-> headers. Add new header of your choice.

Comment 2 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2009-04-04 17:10:52 UTC

Just checked its available in kde3 also.

Comment 3 Martin Steigerwald 2009-04-14 20:57:21 UTC

Thanks for the hint. But this doesn't seem to do want I want. It appears that you have to set the value of the header in the configuration dialog. What I would like and what would make sense here IMHO is to add a new field to the mail composer, so that I can set it when writing a mail - without opening the KMail configuration dialog beforehand.

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 09:59:16 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.