Summary: | KMail replies by default to "sender" instead of "From" in distribution lists: unintended list spamming frequent | ||
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Product: | [Applications] kmail2 | Reporter: | A. Sala <asala> |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
Severity: | minor | CC: | wolfgang |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 4.10.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Other | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
A. Sala
2013-04-26 08:17:58 UTC
I can confirm that this is an issue, especially when an email alias such as allstudents@university.edu is used to send announcement to all members of the community. Clearly, responses to the email should go to the sender and not to the collection address. I suggest the following solution: There is anyway a possibity in KMail2 to setup a directory for the use with a mailing list. If a directory is set up in this way, in my experience, emails always go to the mailing list (even if the address is nowhere mentioned in the email header). So, I suggest that replies should only go to the mailing list if the directory is set up in this way, and by default, a reply should go to the sender / all the senders. It would also be good if there is a configuration option for the default action for hitting on "reply" so that by default the reply goes to the sender, not the list. There are many situations where people don't expect to be posting on the list, and the damage of accidently not posting to the list but to the sender is smaller than vice-versa. This bug has only been reported for versions before 4.14, which have been unsupported for at least two years now. Can anyone tell if this bug still present? If noone confirms this bug for a Framework-based version of kmail2 (version 5.0 or later, as part of KDE Applications 15.12 or later), it gets closed in about three months. Just as announced in my last comment, I close this bug. If you encounter it again in a recent version (at least 5.0 aka 15.08), please open a new one unless it already exists. Thank you for all your input. |