No, I meant we need to develop a Reply All button for her, for the next version. Sorry about that.

Hello, and apologies if this has already been answered - I looked but could not find.

I have a friend using Pegasus Mail. She has a problem with reply and reply all, as described below. It is seriously annoying some of her friends. Executive summary: She really needs her reply to default to single reply every time. It seems to be changing to "reply all" if she ever uses that. This is, as we are all aware, rather dangerous.:

"I use Pegasus Mail and it has a "Reply" button that then opens a dialog box

that I then have to select the "Reply All" option or choose from various

categories of replies that I want.  If I just hit return it only replies to the

sender.  If I select "Reply All" it defaults to that and all future replies go to all

unless I catch it.  That has problems too.  Yes, I really wish they had a one

click "Reply All" but it has many other complex features that I use for many

other activities... "

She is "overcoming" this when replying to her group of friends by using a separate mailing list and pasting that in. The problem is that she sometimes replies to EVERYONE in her giant list rather than the few it was actually sent to (a subgroup).

Why is there no easily accessible "reply all" button?  Is there some secret setting, or can she do something that will alleviate this problem? She is the sort of person who obviously doesn't like to take too many steps to do things, and she is easily distracted.

I used Pmail waaay back in the very early 90s. I use a mac now so can't investigate this myself.

Hoping you can help.

--r

Why is there no easily accessible "reply all" button?  Is there some

secret setting, or can she do something that will alleviate this

problem? She is the sort of person who obviously doesn't like to take

too many steps to do things, and she is easily distracted.

There is one.  When replying the button is right there, however she may have is set to remember the last setting.  She needs to go to Tools | Options |  Outgoing mail | Messages and replies and turn off "Remember address selection options in reply dialog".

Remember address selection options in reply dialog  When this control is checked, the five address selection controls at the bottom of the reply dialog will remember their settings from message to message, as will the Copy original's CC field into reply option. Leaving this option unchecked allows these controls to work on a per-message basis, resetting them before each reply. Working with this control unchecked makes it very easy to select exactly which addresses in a message you wish to use when composing a reply, and we recommend that it normally be turned off.
 

I think she does need a Reply All button.

Thank you for that, Thomas. I will pass on the information and see if that will help.

[quote user="arnaudherve"]I think she does need a Reply All button.
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How can she set this to appear?