Mail reply-to, redirects and forwarding ...

[Charles Jacobs]

On Dec 17, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Paul Sargent wrote:
>
> On Dec 17, 2007 3:52 AM, Charles Jacobs <cjacobs at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Zany! Mail.app also seems to utterly fail at reply-alling if you have
> 2 .mac accounts set up. If you receive a message addressed to both
> accounts and reply-all, it will _not_ send the reply to the address of
> the account you aren't replying from. So in addition to accidentally
> replying _from_ the wrong person, we're also often inadvertently not
> including the other person when we're reply-alling.
>
> Mail must be doing that on purpose because it's actually making a  
> decision to remove an address from the list.
>
> If you think about the case when this set-up is being used by one  
> person, but with two accounts, it makes sense.

I'd still call it a bug. If I email something to me at work and me at home,  
I've done that on purpose and will want both of 'me' included on the  
chain of replies...

> * Somebody e-mails you at all your addresses. They don't know which  
> one you check, so they spam all of them.
> * You receive multiple copies.
> * You respond. The from address is set to your main address, any  
> other addresses that it knows will result in duplicates are removed.
No, actually the from address is set to whichever one my unsure friend  
happened to put first in the To field

> * People reply to you, and you get one copy of each mail to your  
> main account.
No, now the whole email exchange continues on one account, 50% likely  
to be an inconvenient one.

> The "problem" is that Mail is assuming that one user account = one  
> user. That's by design.

An alternative scenario:
* From work, I email a bunch of people and CC myself at home
* Various people, including me, reply-all to the thread
* When I get home, I find that only part of the email exchange  
includes my home address, since mail stripped it out when I made my  
first reply

> Thunderbird may deal with your situation better as it's often used  
> on Windows machines where this one-user-for-everyone set-up is far  
> more common. It's quite a change from Mail.app though.

Thunderbird? Horrors!

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