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

On 12/27/2017 9:29 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

On 12/27/2017 7:38 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

On 12/27/2017 4:28 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

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"

So in version 52.0, Thunderbird added additional functionality: use Reply to reply to the OP, Reply List to reply to the list. Functionality that doesn't exist in other mail clients.

This is not marked as new functionality in the "what's new" at 52.0 - it is marked as a change - note that the description says it will be "...ignoring Reply-to header..." - so it USED to honor that header, as every other client did, it seems.

I do see some flexibility - but the default should have been left as it had done for years and years - add the flag and have it set by default to behave as it has done, not in some new way that will confuse every user.

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I think at this point we agree to disagree.  Having two buttons that do the same thing is pointless.  Having the default behavior be to make the two buttons do two different things works for me. Sometimes backwards compatibility is just... backwards.  But hey, your mileage may vary.  I still wish IBM would put the MOVE instruction into /free.  ;)