[imp] Controlling the reply in IMP 5

[LALOT Dominique]

2011/8/19 D G Teed <donald.teed at gmail.com>

> I write this message using Gmail.  It provided two linked text options
> for reply.
> They were Reply and Reply to all.
>
> On my desktop for IMAP I normally use Thunderbird.  It also supplies
> buttons for Reply and Reply All.
>
> I checked Outlook 2010 and it also supplies Reply and Reply to All options.
>
> The argument about dynamically figuring out how to reply from one button
> doesn't add up to me.
>
> If I click on Reply in dimp to a message from a Mailman mailing list, it
> set up a reply to the sender and cc's the mailing list.  That is Reply to
> All
> in any other mailer.  Furthermore, if I click on the red X to "reply to
> the original sender instead", nothing changes - it is still cc'ing the
> mailing list.
> I have to manually delete the mailing list from cc:.
>
> Just give us two buttons like every other email client (like IMP, and like
> tiny the drop down option).  It will avoid costly/hurtful mistakes.
> That is reason enough to make replies with a safety where the user
> actively chooses and not the software.
>
> If you have never seen a Reply to All that was done in error and caused
> difficulties or embarrassment, you are either young, have limited
> experience
> with email in the typical work world, or have lived a special life.
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You are not the first one to complain. That's particularly true using lists.
As listmaster of thousands of lists at university, the default behaviour is
to setup: reply to sender. We can also say: reply to list.
But IMP is ignoring that, so we have two differents behaviour, IMP4 is OK
and IMP5 is not following what is said in the headers. I just check the same
email with the two versions.
That could be annoying because sometimes you prefer to reply to the real
sender, not to the list privately. If I forgot to copy the list, or reply to
all, then I can send it back again. But if I don't see that IMP5 is replying
to list, everybody will see a private answer with all the damages..

Recently a red warning has been added, but IMP is not following the use we
can see with most MUA. So please change the reply button in reply to all
since it's acting like this.

From: Vincent MATHIEU <Vincent.Mathieu at univ.fr>
To: PECH Davy INSA Rennes <davy.pech at insa.fr>
Cc: cas-fr at esup-portail.org

In IMP5 , it will reply to From and CC as a reply all, just using reply.. We
are numerous asking for a change or a pref


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Dominique LALOT
Ingénieur Systèmes et Réseaux
http://annuaire.univmed.fr/showuser.php?uid=lalot