280851 - Reply-to with Reply-to address

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Jay Knight]

When you get a mail with a Reply-to: address, and hit reply, the compose window
initialized the To: field.... that's great.  It should also be able to set the
reply-to address to the reply-to address in the original message.

Steps to reproduce
1. Receive message with Reply-To: set
2. Hit reply (or reply all)

Actual Behavior
To: is set to Reply-to address, but there is no reply-to set for the new message.

Expected Behavior
Both To: and Reply-To: are set to original messages Reply-to:

Maybe this shouldn't happen all the time, but you should be able to do this

Comment 1

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

Gmail has implemented this and calls it "smart reply". We shoudl have it too. It would be a huge help for me since I frequently subscribe using throwaawy addresses; e.g.

[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

This helps me keep track of where mail is coming from and sort my inbox.

Often people want to see replies coming from the address they sent it to. 

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Gmail has implemented this and calls it "smart reply". We shoudl have it too.

I don't think that's what this report is about. And we already do the "smart reply" as long as you have set up the addresses as identities.

Comment 0 suggests "Both To: and Reply-To: are set to original messages Reply-to:" which would work out terribly for almost all cases except for perhaps some mailing lists.

->WONTFIX