85296 - Reply and Reply-all on messages sent "From: myself" should use the original To: field

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Aleksey Nogin]

When I press Reply on a message that I've sent earlier, the right thing to do is
to start composing the message using the same "TO" field that the original
message had, _not_ "To: myself". Same with Reply-all, it should use the original
To and Cc fields in this case.

Comment 1

[Aleksey Nogin]

This used to work correctly in Communicator 4x.

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Adjusting the summary.

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Reporter, are you replying from the same account you have sent the first message?
I am not able to reproduce this problem!

Comment 4

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

ducarroz: Here are better steps to reproduce:

1.  Send someone (not yourself) an email.
2.  Go to your "Sent" folder for the same account.
3.  Click on the message you just sent.
4.  Click reply.

Expected: The address in the reply field should be the address you originally
sent the email to.
Actual: The address in the reply field is yourself.

I just reproduced this on linux trunk 2001100908.

Comment 5

[Aleksey Nogin]

Also, I don;t know if this should be considered the same bug, or another one,
but IMHO for "reply" and "reply all" purposes, "myself" should mean not only the
address that is listed in the current identity, but also an address from any
other identity. OTOH, may be some people would not want that at it should be a
preference - I am not sure.

Comment 6

[justin hugh daly]

*** Bug 109349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** Bug 191900 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

reproduced on win2000 1.4b (May 4 2003)

Using reply-all shouldn't add the sender's address to the recipient list, and
previous To: should remain To:, as well as previous Cc: should remain Cc:

See also http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200894

Comment 9

[Jay Smith]

I am on Mozilla 1.6 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040123

1) I agree with the original poster.  This is driving me nuts. It used to work
"correctly" -- I think on Mozilla 1.2 (but don't hold me to that).  It certainly
worked "correctly" on Netscape 4.76

2) Both "Reply" and "Reply to All" have this problem. Using "Reply to All", the
TO gets set to me (the original sender) and the CC gets set to the original
recipient -- which is the person to whom I believe the TO should be set.

3) There may be an appropriate difference between "Reply" and "Reply to All",
but one or the other of them ought to work such that the TO is set to the the
original recipient(s) -- certainly *not* the original sender.

4) I believe that Bug #208101 is essentially a duplicate of this bug. I have
cross-posted on both bugs.

Jay Smith

Comment 10

[Aleksey Nogin]

*** Bug 208101 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

reproduced in 1.7 rc 20040513

Comment 12

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 279889 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[David :Bienvenu]

taking, I've been working on a fix for this. 

Comment 14

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

if the author's e-mail address is the same as the current identity's e-mail address, make reply go to the to: field

Comment 15

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 203435 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

this could come in handy when I'm replying to messages in my sent folder. I won't end up in the To field right?

Comment 16

[David :Bienvenu]

yup, extremely handy :-)

Comment 17

[Aleksey Nogin]

Does this fix handle "cross-identity" cases (when the message is "From: myotheridentity")? If not, should I file a follow-up entry?

P.S. Thanks a lot for fixing this!

Comment 18

[Olivier Vit (just a reporter)]

Yes, thanks for this long lasting bug eventually fixed !

Feel free to look at this one also
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200894

Comment 19

[David :Bienvenu]

I didn't do anything about the cross-identity case - I suppose we could iterate over the identities associated with the account (I wouldn't iterate over all the identities in the profile - I don't think that would be desirable). Feel free to file a new rfe bug for that - I doubt I'll have time to get to it, but perhaps someone else will. It should be pretty straightforward.

Comment 20

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Filed bug 317167 on considering all account identities.

Comment 21

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 332974 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

*** Bug 339686 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 24

[KARASZI István]

I can still reproduce this bug in 2.0.0.12 (20080213) with IMAP account and multiple identities it's really annoying :(

Comment 25

[Alvar Saenz-Otero]

I know this issue is very old, but I'd like to re-open it, because its showing up in 24.6.0.

It would be great if this is fixed.

Same steps to reproduce as outlined above:

1.  Send someone (not yourself) an email.
2.  Go to your "Sent" folder for the same account.
3.  Click on the message you just sent.
4.  Click reply.

Expected: The address in the reply field should be the address you originally
sent the email to.
Actual: The address in the reply field is yourself.

Thanks to anyone that can fix it (again)!

Comment 26

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

We don't reopen fixed ancient bugs. File a new bug with clearer steps to reproduce. What you wrote works fine for me. (Someone else can not be one of your identities.)