Let’s say I have two identities for sending email: a work address and a personal address.
I post a patch to an upstream mailing list with my personal address, with the work address in CC.
I receive a reply, and I reply to it. On the reply, Evolution picks one of the identities to send the reply from. But it also drops from the CC list the email address from the other identity.
This has left me very confused a couple times before I noticed what was happening.
Is this behaviour that needs a bug report, or is it just some config setting that I missed?
No, you haven’t understood my steps… let me retry.
I have configured evolution with two identities, i.e. two accounts that use SMTP to send email:
self1 <me@abc. com>
self2 <me@xyz. com>
Let’s say I send an email:
From: <me@abc. com>
To: <me@xyz. com>, <person1@foo. com>, <person2@foo. com>, <person3@bar. com>
Then I receive a reply from someone else, and I reply-all to that email. This is what happens:
From: <me@abc. com>
To: <person2@foo. com>, <person3@bar. com>, <person1@foo. com>
Notice how <me@xyz. com> gets dropped from the To/CC list when I reply. I’m guessing this is because evolution thinks both are my own identities, and it removes one of them. I don’t want evolution to do that.
(I sent this through mail originally, but it has got lost on the route; maybe it’ll be received another day, just do not be surprised if yes).
On Mon, 2024-11-04 at 16:36 +0100, _user via GNOME Discourse wrote:
it also drops from the CC list the email address from the other
identity.
Hi,
that’s on purpose. The idea is that it doesn’t make sense to reply to
yourself. I do not recall any option to turn this behavior off, but I’m
pretty sure it had been asked for, thus it’s really not a bug, it’s a
feature.
Bye,
Milan
Hi,
that’s on purpose. The idea is that it doesn’t make sense to reply to
yourself. I do not recall any option to turn this behavior off, but I’m
pretty sure it had been asked for, thus it’s really not a bug, it’s a
feature.
Bye,
Milan
Thank you! That’s utterly broken behaviour, though. The reason I use two of my identities is to ensure I have access to that thread from a non-work device. If I reply from my work device (using any identity), I’ve effectively cut off the thread from my other mailbox.
Please revert this behavior - or at least add a config option and go back to the saner default.
Hi,
maybe it does not work for your use case, but it works for “everybody”
else for years, thus calling it “utterly broken” is not fair.
When you open mail account Properties, then in the Composing Messages
tab is an option to always CC or Bcc recipients. That might be of a
help for you. Maybe.
Since I don’t believe it has ever worked differently, there’s no
question of “reverting to a saner default”. You are free to file a
Request For Enhancement at
I say it’s broken - because it goes against expectations that reply-to-all will drop any addresses.
I certainly don’t want to offend anyone - it’s just that the behavior is really unexpected, and I’m calling the feature broken. I’m just thankful that Evolution exists on the whole, though, and does a very good job!