608513 - Replying to myself should be avoided

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Martin Husemann]

I often go to the "sent" folder and do a "answer all" there, to send another followup to a thread. Many mail clients offer a configuration setting to strip my own address (if identical to the from address in the mail I'm replying to) from the new generated recipients list automatically.

If I accidently use "reply" instead of "reply all" this is even more annyoing (i.e. I'll reply to myself only, where I wanted off course to reply to original recipient again).

Please consider a preference setting to allow auto-stripping my own address from replies and use the original recipient(s) address instead of "from" in this case.

Comment 1

[Stewart Gordon]

Why a preference?  Why not hard-code the sane behaviour?

Comment 2

[Nicola Battilani]

Yeah. There's currently no proper option for replying on a conversation where the last message was mine. The bug I noticed is similar to Martin's, but IMO the bug is on the interface, not on the user.
 Among {"reply", "reply all", "forward", "reply mailing list"} there isn't a proper one to follow a conversation where the last message was from you. Actually, in my experience, the best is hit "reply all" and remove me from To:; but that's very annoying. 

Two way I see for this bug
1. "reply mailing list" could include this case, though it's not a proper mailing list
2. As Martin suggest - a filter (maybe optional, but by default) on "reply all" that'd remove me from To:

Comment 3

[Martin Husemann]

After noticing it works in current versions for a few co-workers, I looked at extended configuration and found that setting mailnews.reply_to_self_check_all_ident to true fixes it for my setup as well.