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

Late to the party and testing the change...

The principle of least surprise was at work when before T-Bird decided to change the Reply-To.  When I reply to a single entity, it should go to that entity, and previous to the last change T-Bird did just that: If it was a person, the reply when to the person, if it was a list, the reply went to the list.  They changed that behavior and then you had to remember to use "Reply to list" which in my increasing enfeebled state meant that most of the time I forgot to use the "list" option.  David's instructions "fix" that requirement and I am thankful for it.

And +1 to all the comments about using a "desktop" email client like T-Bird.  I only have a paltry 12GB of email going back to 1995 (some occasional purging done) but search and filtering are great, fast tools that I use all the time...

Seems to work! Thanks David!

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On 12/29/2017 8:23 AM, David Gibbs wrote:

On 12/28/17 4:10 PM, Peter Dow wrote:

Interesting. I'm using Thunderbird 52.5.0 (32-bit) and it has separate Reply and Reply List buttons. Reply goes to what shows as the From: email address; Reply List goes to the Reply-To header email.

I'm not 100% sure, but I suspect that the reply-list button uses the List id header to determine what address to reply to.

david