Replying to Community emails should work more like other mailing list systems?

[qqrs]

I'm filing this issue because I have, once again, sent an email to hundreds of people when I intended to email the thread originator directly. It's been a couple years since I replied to a Community thread and I'd forgotten it doesn't work like most other mailing lists. Of course it's a little tricky since Community is aiming to be a blend of forum software and a mailing list.

This relates to #321. Community forges the From header, but uses a Reply-To so replies go back to the Community list.

Google Groups behavior:

from:	Original Poster <op@example.com>
to:	Some Mailing List <some-mailing-list@example.com>

"Reply" -> to: op@example.com
"Reply All" -> to: op@example.com, cc: some-email-list@example.com

Community email behavior:

from:	Original Poster <op@example.com> via mail.community.recurse.com 
reply-to:	general@lists.community.recurse.com
to:	general@lists.community.recurse.com

"Reply" -> to: general@lists.community.recurse.com
"Reply All" -> to: general@lists.community.recurse.com

Possible proposed alternative... What if Community didn't use the Reply-To? Would the user be able to reply to OP only or reply all if they want to send to OP and the list?

(I realize Community isn't under active development, filing this for future consideration)

[nicholasbs]

Thanks for the clear report!

+1. The status quo clearly isn't right -- it should probably work how Google Groups works.

I won't promise a specific timeline, but we'll make this change eventually (also happy to take but by no means expect a PR since this is all open source, and that will still be blocked on one of the ~2 people who know this codebase to review/deploy 😄)