Re: KMail 1.7: New Message To Mailing List

On Sunday 19 September 2004 20:13, Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> On Monday, 20 Sep 2004 01:13, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> > Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 19 Sep 2004 23:38, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> > >>Alex Nordstrom wrote:
> > >>>The way the posting addresses to mailing lists are stored has
> > >>>changed.
> > >>>
> > >>>Right-click on the mailing list folder in question and select
> > >>>Properties. Go to the Mailing List tab and click on the Detect
> > >>>Automatically button.
> > >>
> > >>When I do that, KMail says it doesn't see any mailing list in the
> > >>folder.
> > >
> > > I believe there needs to be some messages in the folder from that
> > > mailing list, with proper List-Post headers for it to work. I'm not
> > > sure if it will work on IMAP folders or if there may be other
> > > issues involved.
> >
> > There are many message in there, though they're all IMAP folders.
> 
> Well, I have access to an IMAP account, so I ran some tests. Turned out 
> to be a blind alley. The detection works fine for me with IMAP, even 
> when I'm not subscribing to those folders (didn't try disconnected 
> IMAP). I did notice, though, that a message with list headers has to be 
> selected for it to work.
> 
> > >>So I fill out the mailing list address and press Add. It
> > >>still fails to do anything when I press the New Message To Mailing
> > >>List button.
> > >
> > > The address needs to be in the form of mailto:[email protected]
> > > (notice the mailto:).
> >
> > I don't think I have a single mailing list that uses that format. Not
> > one. And I have a lot of mailing list folders.
> 
> What I'm saying is, that has to be in the Mailing List tab for the Post 
> to List action. That is what I get in that field when autodetecting, 
> and the New Message to Mailing-List button works for me for all of the 
> 21 lists that I subscribe to.
> 
> The idea behind it is that some actions have alternate methods (using 
> the http protocol instead of mailto), so the posting address needs to 
> be prefixed with it for KMail to know which handler to invoke.
> 
> If you look at the List-Post header in messages on this list, for 
> example, you'll see that is how they are given as well:
> 
> List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]>
> 
> The actual address in the To field in the composing window obviously no 
> longer has the mailto: prefix.

Would you look at man kconf_update and submit a script to
bugs.{debian,kde}.org?

Achim
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