Re: [Evolution] Reply to List not Newsgroup

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

Hmm, no takers to comment on this issue at all, yet. ;)

On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:06 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> I'm a member of a mailing list for our helpdesk. I'm not sure what
> mailing list software they use. If I try to respond to a message that I
> get from the list Evolution wants to do a "Post To:" an mbox instead of
> giving me the normal To: the mailing list address. 
>
> In the headers I think this is the important part:

Yes, exactly. It is the Newsgroups: header.

> Newsgroups: public.remedy.arsystem.general
> Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 08:11:26 -0600  (10:11 EDT)
> Reply-To: arslist ARSLIST ORG
> Sender: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
> <arslist ARSLIST ORG>
> From: Some Body <someadd domain COM>
> Subject: Re: Don't see my own posts?
> To: arslist ARSLIST ORG
> In-Reply-To: <1147779275 16589 18 camel server com>
>
> I don't see the "Newsgroups" line in the headers of my other mailing
> lists. I'm trying to work with the people on that list to understand
> what is going on, but I'm not really getting anywhere. 
>
> I use this same account and client for all my mailing lists, so I don't
> think it's an evolution "problem". But, I was hoping someone here could
> shed light on it for me.

Unfortunately, it is. :/

It is a known bug, that Evo will not properly reply, if there is a
Newsgroups: header in your mail received on a *mail* account, but rather
default to post to the newsgroup.

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260995
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306525

The first link being the open bug, the second one holds quite some
discussion. Feel free to add comments. :)

As a workaround, just delete that text in the Post To: input field, and
use View / To Field to get a proper To: header. (Maybe Reply To List
would work as well, don't recall if I even tried it.)

...guenther


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