SOLVED: KMail 1.7: New Message To Mailing List

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.
> 
Well, when I booted up today and, just for the Hell of it, hit the New
Message To Mailing List button for a particular mail folder, it
worked. Rather shocked, I looked at the Mail List tab and found the
"mail to" format was filled in for me. Don't know how that happend. I
then noticed that all my mailing folders had the the correctly
formatted Mailing List tab entry. I have no idea why. But it works
now. Perhaps after I check the "Folder holds a mailing list" box, the
next time message came into that folder, KMail updated the info in
the Mail List tab field.