On 07/05/2017 02:41 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 6/24/17 4:20 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 06/23/2017 11:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >>> On 06/23/2017 05:39 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>> Having mentioned the TB subject, I also have "problems" with the >>>> upstream versions of TB I use when interacting with this mail list. >>>> TB has "reply", "reply all" and "reply list", where "reply all" >>>> works as expected, whereas if I use "reply" to say respond to your >>>> email then that build the reply to send it to you and not the >>>> mailing list, so to reply to the mailing list I have to use "reply >>>> list", and I have never been able to work out why and whether its a >>>> mailing list issue or a TB issue. >>> >>> It seems to be a recent change to the list that the reply-to is now >>> set to the original sender instead of the list address. But thanks >>> to you mentioning the reply to list option in TB, I just noticed that >>> button and then found the shortcut key is CTRL-SHIFT-L for that. I >>> will train myself to use that in future. >> >> I just checked the email headers and the reply-to still points to the >> list! I have discovered that it is a change in TB after all. That is >> rather annoying. See >> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.0/releasenotes/ : >> >> "When replying to a mailing list, reply will be sent to address in >> From header ignoring Reply-to header" >> >> Sorry for blaming the mailing list... > On reflecting when this occurred, it seems that it did first start > occurring in the old version of TB mentioned in the release notes, but > what I now need to work out is, when there are multiple entries in what > TB shows as the To address, how TB selects the right one to reply to > when using 'Reply to List', or whether its not using the reply to tag at > all, and is using the List_id tag instead. I say this from looking at > the source for Rick's reply where I noticed a reply-to tag and a List_id > tag both referencing the mailing list address. I wonder if "Reply List" actually picks up the "List-Post" header (if present) and uses that, whereas "Reply" just picks up the "From" header. Regardless, I'd still consider it incorrect behavior. "Reply" should use the "Reply-To" header if present and resort to the "From" header if "Reply-To" isn't present. Whether it's a list posting or not is utterly irrelevant for "Reply". Only the "Reply List" button should care if it's a list posting or not, and should also use the "Reply-To" header first, falling back to the "List-Post" header and "From" headers (in that order). Why the TB people made such a non-intuitive (and IMHO completely wrong) change is beyond me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - The trouble with troubleshooting is that trouble sometimes - - shoots back. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
