288020 - Reply To All needs to filter against List-Post header

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Fish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050313 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050313 Firefox/1.0.1

Reply and Reply-All functions with mail lists been a frequent topic on bugzilla
and the forums, but I'm hoping this bug report is specific and easy enough to
get done.

On some mailing lists (Gentoo-User, for example), Reply-To is munged to send
replys to the list.  So you have something like:

From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Reply-To: [e-mail]

Currently with thunderbird, hitting "Reply All" replies to the To: and Reply-To:
address, causing two copies of the email message to go to the list.

I suggest that if both the Reply-To: and To: addresses appear in the List-Post
header, only the Reply-To address should be used in the reply all, since that is
the one most likely to be requested by the mail list administrator. 

I'll leave it for other flame wars to decide whether the From: address should be
in reply-all or not!


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive email from [e-mail]
2. Hit Reply-All

Actual Results:  
Two copies of my message went to the list.

Expected Results:  
A single copy should have gone to the list.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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