Bug 76005

Summary: Allow user to override Followup-To: poster
Product: [Unmaintained] knode Reporter: Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: ndbecker2
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Tristan Miller 2004-02-24 10:47:11 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Sometimes articles include the header "Followup-To: poster".  In KNode, replying to these articles invokes KMail.  However, in some cases the user wishes his reply to be sent to Usenet, and not just to the poster.  KNode offers no means of overriding the specified Followup-To.
Comment 1 Andreas Klauer 2004-07-15 17:13:49 UTC 
I want this too. However, it should not be too easy to override; since it is necessary only on rare occassions (but then absolutely, think of abusive messages). Maybe in the knode configuration dialog under posting/technical a checkbox 'Allow override of fup2p' thats default off, and even if it's on force a special query window if the user tries to reply to an fup2p article.
Comment 2 Andreas Klauer 2004-07-15 19:16:18 UTC 
It seems that this feature already half-exists: You can choose to post to the newsgroup too if you don't use an external mailer (like I do with KMail). With external mailer, using this feature is not possible anymore.

Maybe it would be a good thing to check if other features like this go missing too if people chose external programs for stuff. Maybe it would be a good thing to offer an easy way around external programs, e.g. use external Mailer by default but make KNode's own capabilities easily available by a button dropdown-menu or something.
Comment 3 Karl-Heinz Zimmer 2004-09-01 22:47:53 UTC 
Found ab easy way to fix this bug: Instead of informing the user via
KMessageBox::Information we now ask her via KMessageBox::questionYesNo.

So we have both the information and the possibility to ignore it.

Since the message box will show up each time the user wants to reply
in public to a posting with "F'up-To: poster" set, the user will have
to think about it each time: that's better than forcing her to reply
by mail.

Karl-Heinz
Comment 4 Karl-Heinz Zimmer 2004-09-01 22:48:40 UTC 
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.