Closed Bug 32715 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Reply-all to mozilla groups goes to mailing list AND newsgroup

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WORKSFORME
mozilla0.9

People

(Reporter: akkzilla, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

(Whiteboard: [nsbeta1+])

The mozilla lists are available as mailing lists AND newsgroups, e.g.
mozilla-seamonkey@mozilla.org and netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey.

If I use mozilla to reply-all to a message that I read on the mailing list
version of one of these groups, the To lines will have both the mailing list and
the newsgroup in them.  4.x only has the mailing list; it doesn't try to include
the newsgroup if I'm replying to a mail article.

On the face of it, this seems like a good thing (don't throw away information),
but in practice it means that anyone casually using mozilla to reply-all to a
message on our mozilla lists will end up posting twice.

Or would if it worked: but actually, the news version fails: it bounces back
with the message:

Reporting-MTA: dns; gila.mozilla.org
Received-From-MTA: DNS; h-205-217-237-47.netscape.com
Arrival-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:44:35 -0800 (PST)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; <mozilla-seamonkey@mozilla.org>Action: expanded (to
multi-recipient alias)
Status: 2.0.0
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:44:42 -0800 (PST)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; <mozilla-seamonkey@mozilla.org>
X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; netscape.public.mozilla.seamonkey@gila.mozilla.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 13:44:42 -0800 (PST)

Ideally, we should do something that will cause users not to post twice AND not
to get an error message.  I'm not sure what this "something" is, but the safe
bet might be to do what 4.x does and not try to put newsgroups in the headers of
mail replies.
accepting, M17
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → M17
Minor UI fixups to M18.  If this is incorrect, please adjust.
Target Milestone: M17 → M18
Moving to future milestone.

Can the user simply wipe out the incorrect address in the addressing widget?

If I'm missing something here - like we end up getting a high failure rate for 
sending news messages - then please include this information in the bug, and 
move the target milestone back to m18.
Target Milestone: M18 → Future
This bug makes mozilla unusable for replying to mail that was sent to a mozilla
newsgroup but was read via mail; it ends up having both in the header, editing
them down doesn't work, it sends out two copies, then one of the copies bounces
because it has the wrong headers.

When I have to reply to a message like that, I have to bring up 4.x.  I can't
believe futuring this bug -- if anything, it should be considered dogfood (it
is, for anyone who needs to do a lot of replying to mozilla group postings).
Trying again to add keywords -- attempts to add keywords with mozilla have been
failing frequently for me.
Keywords: dogfood
Target Milestone: Future → M18
Mail Triage is marking [nsbeta3-]
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-]
Target Milestone: M18 → Future
Adding mail3 keyword.
Keywords: mail3
JF, do we have anyway of knowing that we should be posting this for the 
newsgroup?
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-] → [nsbeta3-][NEED INFO]
marking nsbeta1+ and moving to mozilla0.8

We shouldn't be filling in newsgroups in the To: header and then appending the
domain.
Keywords: nsbeta3nsbeta1
Whiteboard: [nsbeta3-][NEED INFO] → [nsbeta1+]
Target Milestone: Future → mozilla0.8
Is this still happening? Moving to mozilla0.9 in case it is.
Target Milestone: mozilla0.8 → mozilla0.9
we use to have some problem with the addressing widget a while ago due to an XBL
bug but now everything is back to normal. The behavior of the replyAll was
different from platform to platform in 4.x but now it's consistent: it always
reply to all recipients and groups. Soon you will be able to say reply to group
or reply to group and sender (see bug 17796 for more info)
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
QA Contact: lchiang → sheelar
verifying worksforme based on 2001-01-17 12:03
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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