Bug 86156

Summary:	Don't send replies to more than one mailing list address alias
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Michael Nottebrock <lofi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	FreeBSD Ports
OS:	FreeBSD
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Michael Nottebrock 2004-07-28 13:49:39 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.3)
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports
OS:                FreeBSD

While this behaviour is probably useful in many cases (my guess is that it's supposed to prevent novice mailing list users from omitting to reply back to the list if the list doesn't set Reply-To), there is no option to disable it, which becomes a problem in organizations which use many mailinglists with more than one list-post address (and all variants being actively used), because it generates mail-doubles.

Please add such an option.

Comment 1 Ingo Klöcker 2004-09-27 23:57:32 UTC

I've changed the severity to normal and I'll fix the bug by making KMail omit mailing list aliases. But you will have to tell KMail about all the mailing list alias addresses by adding them to the Mailing List settings of the corresponding mailing list folder.

Other solutions like adding an option are not an option.

Comment 2 John Baldwin 2008-06-04 16:52:15 UTC

FYI, bug 109069 is a duplicate of this bug.  It seems there are many people who are frustrated that kmail has decided that it is smarter than they are and would rather have a knob to just turn this "feature" off.  None of the other MTA's I've used (Mail.app, pine, mutt, etc.) have this "feature".  Please reconsider your current stance as right now it comes off as rather arrogant and condescending.

Comment 3 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:23:45 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.