[Users] reply-to-list annoyance (was Re: Mailing list replies - Was: Error while sending....)

Ian Zimmerman itz at buug.org
Wed Jan 28 23:42:03 CET 2015


On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:46:27 -0800,
Chad Wallace <cwallace at lodgingcompany.com> wrote:

Barry> So anyway, what I think I'd like CM to do is refuse to
Barry> reply-to-list if there's no List-Post header.  That way I'll at
Barry> least find out early that I need to either reply-to-all or find
Barry> the list copy to reply-to-list to.

Chad> I agree.  And I'm guessing (ignorant of the code) this should be
Chad> very easy to implement... just find the reply-to-list code, and
Chad> remove the part that falls back to a regular reply, and put up an
Chad> error instead.

Actually you cannot do it quite this way, because of the cursed "Reply
is ML reply" option.  If you did, the poor souls who enable the option
would have no way to reply either way.

My plan is to show a dialog box saying "This may not be what you want,
proceed?" , continue as before if the answer is yes, and bail out
otherwise.

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