Comment 18 for bug 334064

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 18:08, Barry Warsaw <email address hidden> wrote:

> It's actually quite easy to do without munging Reply-To. If you have a
> mailer
> that supports RFC 2369 - which became a standard in *1998* - then your
> mailer
> has a "reply-to-mailing-list" button that fills the To field of the reply
> with
> the value of the List-Post field of the original message.
>

Ubuntu's default mail client (Evolution) lacks this on the toolbar, although
there's an entry for it buried under a menu.

Again, the common case is wrong.

Launchpad bugs, btw, handle this sensibly, with a reply-to on bug mail, so
follow-up messages sent by mail (like this one) go to the bug tracker,
instead of to you. That's where the conversation is, and that's where the
common-case reply should go. Now, you can make an argument that *every
single mail client in the world* should be updated, but given how long
evolution's gone with this being broken, I'd argue the right option is just
to have the messages specify where mail goes.

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