Replying to lists (and related queries)

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

Hi all,

I've been making fairly heavy use of the automatic identity selection feature 
of late and it works well for me except in one situation.  Replying to a 
list.  Its becoming an irritation because I keep forgetting to explicitly 
select the identity before sending messages to the list, leading to 
unnecessary bounces, list admin actions etc.

I thought I'd do a patch for this so I found the code that guesses the 
identity, but then I got stuck.  Currently Balsa guesses the identity from the 
content of the original message's To: header.  Just now, I can't think of a 
good way to guess/select an identity for replying to lists.  Any suggestions?

Realted thing.  Would it be more sensible to replace the address book button 
to the right of the From field with the identity selector button?  Allowing 
the arbitrary selection of From: from the address book appears to violate RFC 
2822.  from section 3.6.2

    In all cases, the "From:" field SHOULD NOT contain any mailbox that
    does not belong to the author(s) of the message.

Another related thing, when using the address book button to pick an arbitrary 
From: address, does balsa set the Sender: header from the identity?  RFC 2822 
states that the Sender: header should be set when From: lists multiple 
addresses or when the mailbox in From: is not the actual sender of the 
message.  Again this is described in RFC 2822 3.6.2

Brian