1379428 - Thunderbird does not honor Reply-To: on list posts.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1309486

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Mark Sapiro]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170612122310

Steps to reproduce:

Open or view a message from a list with both Reply-To: and List-Post: headers containing the same address and "Reply" (or Ctrl+R).


Actual results:

Reply is addressed to the address in From:

This behavior is documented at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.0/releasenotes/ and appears to be a "fix" for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77304. While I am sympathetic to some of the comments on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77304, I believe this change is wrong and is highly disruptive to the expectations of users who have experienced the prior behavior for years.

At the very least, this changed behavior should be optional with the default being the prior behavior.


Expected results:

Reply is addressed to the address in Reply-To:

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This is being covered in bug 1309486