[Users] Unintended addresses

[Abrolag]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 21:27:51 +0100
wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Abrolag,
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 20:18:25 +0000 Abrolag <abrolag at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 20:47:29 +0100
> > wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> >   
> > > Hello Abrolag,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 19:41:25 +0000 Abrolag <abrolag at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > >     
> > > > I send and receive a lot of emails and frequently dodge between accounts when
> > > > sending/replying. I really REALLY need a pre-send warning if there is more than
> > > > one address picked up.
> > > > 
> > > > This is getting to be a real nuisance.      
> > > 
> > > Picked up by who or when doing what?
> > > 
> > > I'm afraid there's no email agent that offers the feature you require,
> > > isn't there? At least in Claws Mail, it is not possible.
> > > 
> > > My feeling here is that *you* need to change your work flow or acquire
> > > a different habit.
> > >     
> > > > It must be possible to do this otherwise how would Claws
> > > > know to send the individual emails?      
> > > 
> > > That question makes me wondering what's the point? Claws Mail send one
> > > email with several recipients, the SMTP server handles this. What else?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > >    
> > 
> > Although I've been using Claws for a long time, I still have a lot of almost
> > unbreakable muscle-memory type habits from the software I first started with on
> > the Acorn Archimedes in the late 1980s. Not only did this have such warnings,
> > but you could even set how many addresses it would accept before giving such a
> > warning. This was mostly directed at preventing accidental cross-posting on
> > newsgroups but was very useful anyway.
> > 
> > I know that only one actual email is sent, but Claws shows these on individual
> > lines (maintaining a spare) therefore number of lines -1 = number of recipients.
> > 
> > None of my personal email folders have a default address so they *don't* add
> > this. It only happens if the last folder I looked at is a list one which does
> > have a default address - for obvious reasons. It is incredibly easy to forget
> > which was the last folder when working fast, and keeping several different
> > projects in your head at the same time.  
> 
> Is this when you reply to a mailing list (or an alias or..), that you
> would like to get warned of sending to several recipients? Or is it
> more general? 
> 
> 
> Regards,

It is when *inadvertently* replying to a mailing list. Such a check would also
be useful when replying on a newsgroup (I still post to a few).


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