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Change reply behavior

See original GitHub issue

Sometimes users seem to be surprised about the way K-9 Mail selects recipients when the “reply” action is used. I’m proposing to add more options with names that hopefully make it clearer which addresses will be selected as recipients.

Proposed behavior described via examples:

From: sender@example.org
To: you@example.org

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply (sender@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: unknown@example.org

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply (sender@example.org)
Reply to all (sender@example.org, unknown@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: you@example.org
Reply-To: other@example.org

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply (other@example.org)
Reply to all (sender@example.org, other@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: unknown@example.org
Reply-To: other@example.org

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply (other@example.org)
Reply to all (sender@example.org, other@example.org, unknown@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: you@example.org
List-Post: <mailto:list@example.org>

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply to list (list@example.org, sender@example.org)
Reply (sender@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: you@example.org
Reply-To: list@example.org
List-Post: <mailto:list@example.org>

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply to list (list@example.org, sender@example.org)
Reply (sender@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: you@example.org
Reply-To: other@example.org
List-Post: <mailto:list@example.org>

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply to list (list@example.org, other@example.org)
Reply (other@example.org)
Reply to all (sender@example.org, other@example.org, list@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: list@example.org
Reply-To: list@example.org
List-Post: <mailto:list@example.org>

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply to list (list@example.org, sender@example.org)
Reply (sender@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: list@example.org
Reply-To: other@example.org
List-Post: <mailto:list@example.org>

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply to list (list@example.org, other@example.org)
Reply (other@example.org)
Reply to all (sender@example.org, other@example.org, list@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: unknown@example.org
Reply-To: list@example.org
List-Post: <mailto:list@example.org>

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply to list (list@example.org, sender@example.org)
Reply (sender@example.org)
Reply to all (sender@example.org, list@example.org, unknown@example.org)

From: sender@example.org
To: unknown@example.org
Reply-To: other@example.org
List-Post: <mailto:list@example.org>

Displayed actions (in order):

Reply to list (list@example.org, other@example.org)
Reply (other@example.org)
Reply to all (sender@example.org, other@example.org, list@example.org, unknown@example.org)

Feedback is very welcome.

Update 1: Incorporated feedback from https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/3738#issuecomment-440997017 Update 2: See https://github.com/k9mail/k-9/issues/3738#issuecomment-441495208

Issue Analytics

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:12
Comments:16 (8 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

neiljerramcommented, Jun 7, 2019

Is this change going to actually happen soon? After an accidental and semi-embarrassing reply-to-list today - again - I’ve ended up here, and it’s clear that many k9 users have been burned by this, not just me.

Could we at least have an option - soon - to ignore List-Post?

(In my view List-Post should have nothing to do with replying. It tells you how to write a new message to the list.)

3reactions

nomiscommented, Dec 9, 2018

I think it’s customary for list replies to reply to both list and sender. It’s rarely harmful at least, and removing recipients from the list is easier than adding more. That way we can get rid of an entire option, since “reply to list” and “reply to all” become the same for typical list messages.

Please don’t do this, “reply to list” should be a separate option and only reply to the list. I’m fed up of people sending me duplicate messages to different folders by copying me in mailing list replies.