[horde] [imp] Controlling the reply in IMP 5

D G Teed donald.teed at gmail.com
Mon Aug 29 15:43:26 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:30 AM, LALOT Dominique <dom.lalot at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2011/8/29 D G Teed <donald.teed at gmail.com>
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>> 2011/8/29 Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>> >> OK, we've talked about the theory.   Here is the reality folks...
>> >> A ticket arrived in our Helpdesk this morning:
>> >>
>> >> User - Ricky XXXXXX (rickyusername)
>> >> Incident: Network->Intranet->Webmail
>> >> Assigned to: System Services
>> >> Description: I believe there is a security issue with the email
>> >> system. I have recently been receiving emails from students who have
>> >> pressed the "reply all" to emails sent by YYYYYYY University to
>> >> students.
>> >
>> > The university YYYYY is doing it wrong. It should *never* set To: or Cc:
>> > to anything more than one recipient per email when mass mailing students.
>> > There are far bigger dangers than misclicked "reply all" in such cases.
>> >
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>> I don't know if you followed this thread.  Others have also confirmed
>> that when the preference is set in Mailman to reply only
>> to sender, horde isn't picking up on it.
>>
>> ( Mailman option reply_goes_to_list is set to Poster, which causes
>> Reply-To:
>> header to be set with poster name )
>>
>> The default behaviour we see in DIMP with imp5
>> is reply to sender, which also cc's the list.
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> I CAN CONFIRM also for SYMPA and report that months ago.
>
> lists configured with reply to sender leads to reply to list using dimp
> default behaviour which is not acceptable. We are a lot to complain..
>
> Dom
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>> >> Classes have not started yet, but this might be a killer for Horde 4
>> >> and dimp
>> >> as the default interface.  Is there a way we can default to traditional
>> >> mode
>> >> rather than "automatic"?
>> >
>> > Yes, in Horde Configuration or Default/User Preferences.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> We'll need to switch to this to avoid the confusion and problems
>> until we get two buttons in dimp as per the feature request
>> put into the bug tracker.

I realized I've never mentioned the actual bug tracker number for this.

It is 10441:

http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=10441

Our horde webmail is now forcing traditional interface/view
until this bug/feature request is fixed or addressed in some way.


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