Re: email mess - maybe OT or not

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On Wednesday 20 October 2021 02:02:34 Mike Bird wrote:

> On Tue October 19 2021 18:41:17 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> > There is a recurring glitch in my emails, which involves another
> > person (person A) here on the mailing list. (I don't name him here,
> > but I have already contacted him to ask about it.) It involves the
> > mailing list, maybe, because I only know him from the list, and we
> > have only exchanged a couple of personal emails outside the list.
> >
> > Now here is the actual "problem": I have another friend (person B)
> > who is not a member of the list. When she recently sent me an email
> > from her phone, the private email address of this first person
> > (person A, a member of the list) showed up in her (person B's) email
> > headers. There is absolutely no other connection between these two
> > persons, except of course for myself.
>
> Hi William,
>
> Your email quoted in part above contains the following headers:
>
>   References: <201802171815.09906.gheskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>   In-Reply-To: <201802171815.09906.gheskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Either your KMail is really messed up or you sometimes start an
> email and then repurpose it.  For example it looks like that email
> started as a reply to Gene and then you changed it to go to the
> list but it already had the references to Gene in it.
>
> This could explain how references to person A got into your
> correspondence with person B.
>
> --Mike

I do that too. Adding and occasionally deleting target adresses after the 
composer is opened.

And I'd call that a bug, those headers should be composed when its sent, 
not when the composer is opened. They s/b done dynamically after its 
determined where the message is going.

My $0,02.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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