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January 2010

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[Bug 502022] [NEW] RFE: provide option to email displayed message to email address
by Aaron Whitehouse Jan. 1, 2010

Jan. 1, 2010

Public bug reported: Very often, I will come across a new piece of information on a topic that has previously been discussed on the list. I will then search through my email accounts to try and find a copy of an email in that thread and reply to it, so that the message is correctly archived in the list manager etc. Quite a lot of times, I will have deleted the relevant message. I then have to find it on the list, which is not a problem. Because I don't have a copy of the email to reply to, I can't reply to the thread and make it come up as part of the thread. At best, I can create a new email and add a permalink to the original thread. This would not, however, allow people browsing the old thread in the archives to see the newer information. What would be ideal (and which I have seen implemented in other list managers, but cannot remember where) would be if, after finding a post in the archives, one could click a button and enter an email address to have that message (with all thread headers etc.) emailed to that email address again. Then the user could simply reply to the new email to have the threading properly maintained. A second, related use-case is for people who aren't on the list and find a "hanging" thread in the archives. I often Google and find threads that end with something like "I will provide an update on this soon" with no following update. It would be nice, even if I wasn't on the mailing list, to have that one email sent to me so that I could reply and maintain threads. ** Affects: mailman Importance: Undecided Status: New -- RFE: provide option to email displayed message to email address https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/502022 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mailman Coders, which is subscribed to GNU Mailman.

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