Re: *** ADMIN: Attn Thunderbird Users: Reply-to behavior

Larry

The "reply to list" works the same with the new setting turned off, as David suggested.

And now "Reply" also defaults to the list - that was the behavior of Thunderbird for years until recently - at version 52.0 of Thunderbird, in fact. The Change documentation for 52.0 has this - "When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in From header ignoring Reply-to header"

At 52.4 of Thunderbird, this new setting was added.

So Thunderbird, until April, 2017, behaved like Outlook, etc., and respected the Reply-to header item with the default reply. And this is the way Thunderbird behaved until only 8 months ago.

I've been a long-time Thunderbird user - going back to a predecessor, Eudora, from Qualcomm many half-decades ago.

I have always just click on "reply" to send a reply to the list, did not have to use the special button. That habit was ingrained over the years, so the change in April meant I often sent replies to the OP, not the list.

Now, OTOH, now that I'm kind of used the new behavior, it does give an easy alternative way to reply to the OP - before April I had to copy the email of the OP, then replace the list address with that email.

So I've changed back to old behavior - it's a trade-off - which action is going to give me the least chance of sending to the wrong place?

HTH, Joe!!!!
Vern

On 12/27/2017 3:03 PM, DrFranken wrote:

I know Joe is really a hardware guy :-) but I'm with Joe on this software issue: T-Bird is THE mail client.

First off if you want to use GaMail you need to be on-line. I am not always on-line. Second the thing my wife complains most vociferously about GaMail is it's horrible search capability. I mean they own the Google what could they possibly know about searching? With 75GB of mail on my laptop I can search it all including in the body in just seconds.

My mail is on My server and it's on My devices not on a service that can decide to scan it, advertise to me about what's in it, or record it for any other purpose.  Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.

However until recently 'Reply to List' always replied to a blank entry. So I NEVER used that. Testing it now, it does show midrange-l there. Wonder if that was affected by the new config option?

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On 12/27/2017 3:51 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

I'm slow today and I still don't get it.

The issue seems to be how to reply to the list.  You as the list manager do something nifty with the headers so that Outlook and iOS reply to the list.  Very slick stuff.  The issue seems to be that Thunderbird doesn't work the same way.

INSTEAD, Thunderbird lets me either hit Reply (to reply to the author) or Reply List (to reply to the list).  I haven't had to do anything to configure that behavior, it's how Thunderbird works. If I hit Reply List, it goes to the list.

So what is the problem Thunderbird is having?  That Thunderbird's default Reply doesn't work the same as Outlook? That it has a Reply List button that other clients don't have? To me, that's just a minor difference in UI design.

Anyway, not a big deal.  I hope you enjoyed the Holiday season, David! Say hello to your better half, and I wish you a wonderful New Year.