Version: 1.6.1 (using KDE 3.2.1, (testing/unstable)) Compiler: gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.2 When replying to mails where I myself am the sender (usually all mails in the "sent mail" folder for example), the default recipient should be the recipient of the mail being replied to. Currently the default recipient is myself, which is logical but useless. Commonly one wants to make additional remarks to an Email one has sent to somebody when replying to one's own messages, so the current behavior is not useful.
Yes, this is one of the few features I am missing in my recent switch to KMail. Evolution, for example, has this behavior.
Confirming bug still exists in KMail 1.8.
I'd also appreciate this feature, which I still miss in kmail 1.9.7. GMail, for example, has this behavior too and sometimes it's quite convenient.
partial workaround: use "Reply to all", shortcut A.
Confirming bug still exists in KMail 1.9.9.
Confirming feature still missing from KDE 4.2.2.
*** Bug 195892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 39666 [details] Fall back to original recipient if sender is a local identity
I've attached a small patch to change KMail's (very annoying) behaviour when replying to mails in 'sent' folder. When answering to a mail sent by myself I normally intend to sent additional information to the original receipment, but if I'm not using "Reply to all" the message will be sent to myself. This patch checks wether the "From" address belongs to any of my own identities. If this is true, it uses the value of the original "To" as new receipment.
SVN commit 1071678 by tmcguire: When replying to a mail that was sent by ourselves, reply to the sender instead of ourselves, as that is usually a followup to the original mail. Patch by Roland Tapken <ml at lalamuhkuh dot de>, thanks! BUG: 77697 M +9 -0 messagehelper.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1071678
This bug still exists in KDE 4.5. Is the SVN commit mentioned in the previous comment still pending or does this bug need to be reopened?
Do you actually use kdepim4.5 packages? May be you have still the 4.4 ones, as kdepim 4.5 is not released yet.
I've got some packages from 4.4, and some from 4.5 (since that's what the openSUSE 11.3 Factory repository provides): $ rpm -qa|fgrep kdepim|sort kdepim4-4.4.5-236.4.x86_64 kdepim4-runtime-4.4.5-52.8.x86_64 kdepim4-wizards-4.4.5-236.4.x86_64 kdepimlibs4-4.5.0-174.2.x86_64 libkdepim4-4.4.5-236.4.x86_64 libkdepimlibs4-4.5.0-174.2.x86_64