[linux-audio-user] List Archive and replying

Jan Weil jan.weil at web.de
Fri Jun 25 11:22:02 EDT 2004


On Fri Jun 25 10:26:29 2004 Marv Smoak wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2004 08:09 am, tim hall wrote (and I snipped):
> > Last Thursday 24 June 2004 18:26, Marv Smoak was like:
> > > When I'm viewing a message in the archive, and click on Reply, the
> > > message to which I'm replying is not quoted in the compose-message
> > > screen.  I'm sure I can solve this by cut/paste manually.  Is
> > > there a way to setup the mail program to generate the quote of the
> > > the replied-to message automatically as when the original message
> > > is in my mailbox?  Or is this a limitation of the archive setup?
> >
> > kmail should do this by default. maybe you have an old version. It
> > _should_ be obvious in Settings > Configure KMail >> Composer, but
> > YMwpV ;-)
> > It's not a function of the list set-up AFAIK.
> >
> Yes, KMail does it fine if I'm viewing the message with KMail.  But if
> I've deleted the message from KMail and go to the archive with the
> browser and use the reply link on the archive webpage,  the message is
> not quoted.
> I did some Google'ing and this does appear to be a limitation of the
> mailto: link in HTML for any web site; mailto: just can't do that, I
> think.  (I also noticed that the PlanetCCRMA archive doesn't have a
> reply link.)  So it appears that cut/paste, manual quote is the only
> way. 

In general this is bad practice because it starts a new thread with the
same topic. This is due to the missing In-Reply-To line in the email
header. 
After all it's better to avoid replying from the archives even if a
reply link is present.

-- 
Jan Weil
My Linux Audio weblog:
http://www.jawebada.de/index.cgi/blog/lad



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