Calc - Button clic saves and sends email

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#21

I still see no Smart Reply but in the email window itself there is the Reply Lists button, which I will be trying to use. I see no option for any toolbar, menu item or anything else resembling what you are talking about (I also see no images in the bug post you link to). Makes me wonder if we're even using the same software! Maybe there's a difference between my Mac version and whatever you are using?

Carl

#22

I am using Thunderbird on the Mac. If you right-click the message header, you will see a customize button. Clicking it will give you a number of items to add to the toolbar and will allow you to remove items from the toolbar. Since I have Smart Reply present, the corresponding button shows "Reply List" when I am viewing this list. The "Reply List" button disappears when I am not viewing a mailing list.

John

#23

Like I said...

YOU HAVE TO ADD IT.

Right-click (CMD-Click on a Mac) in the email Header pane, and click 'Customize'.

Then you should be able to drag-remove the plain Reply button, and drag-add the Smart Reply button.

#24

OK, thanks, this helps. I hadn't understood that the only way to ADD the button was to right-click. Sometimes it's helpful to be explicit. Not everyone knows all the details of every software.

So I had the Reply Lists (or Smart Reply?) button on individual email windows all along (whether showing all headers or not). But I can also CTRL-Click on the header above the email windows (e.g. in the main window) and get the same button. This button shows regardless of the state of the headers or other settings. If I use that button to reply to an individual email, the To field is left blank, but if I click it on a list email, it uses the list reply address.

Not quite as useful as I expected, but it does kinda help. Now I can click on an email that isn't open and still reply to the list (if it's a list email). I still have to remember to use the reply lists button, but that shouldn't be too hard to learn (I'm not THAT old of a dog...).

Thanks again.
Carl

#25

I run Thunderbird on Ubuntu Linux. I have Mail Toolbar, Menu bar, and Status bar, checked.

I do like how TB now will detect if the message is from a "list". It was maybe a year ago that "Reply List" showed up, or the first time I remember seeing it.

There are still people out there that forget and use Reply, which was the way to reply to the list's emails before the new button showed up.

I have used TB on Windows, but I do not set my Windows systems to read my email accounts that I use on my Ubuntu system. Do not want to read/reply to emails outside of my default system, just in case I forget about one.

The only trouble with TB right now is the fact that the Status bar no longer tell me which accounts it is looking at for possible mail needing to download. Yes, I have a few - 18 with my GMail included that are read through TB. I have a few web-mail only accounts that I tend to forget about, since I rarely ever use them.

#26

I'm using Thunderbird latest rev (24.3.0) in PCLOS, and customize only shows the usual reply stuff --reply, reply all, reply list.
Also, at the top of that window that oopens, it says you can drag things to/ from the tool bar to suit yourself, but you can't.
You cannot drag anything, with either the left or the right button.
So the Mac must be different.

--doug

#27

Hi :slight_smile:
[sighs deeply] So some people on this mailing-list demand that we all
change which email-client we use to the one that they use and then set
it to a non-default way.

Many of us disagree with that sort of philosophy, especially for a
User Support mailing-list. In my opinion we should be accommodating
and accept what-ever they use.

We can make suggestions, of course, but demands and expectations are
unreasonable. There are bigger issues for us.
1. getting people to accept the native format used by so many
different office suites and programs (ODF)
2. helping people to move away from proprietary vendor lock-ins and
move towards LO, AOO, google-docs, Caligra/KOffice, Gnome Office, or
any of the others that use ODF natively
3. helping people naturally gravitate towards LibreOffice due to it's merits

Obviously item 3 is a quick short-cut to 1 and 2.

Getting or demanding that people change their e-mail clients don't
achieve any of those aims and may even hinder them as being 1 blocker
too many.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#28

[snip]

I only recall seeing one suggestion that people change their email
client app. Otherwise it's been observations about how many (most?)
other mailing lists handle participation and Reply-to, along with some
comments about how individuals handle it, themselves.

Personally: Other than preferring people *not* Reply-all to my posts,
because I find receiving duplicates annoying, I don't care.

Regards,
Jim

#29

Sometimes you have to actually read emails to grok their content... :wink:

#30

NO.

There is a separate 'Reply List' button.

There is a 'Smart Reply' button.

Two different buttons.

#31

Are you customizing the MAIN Menu Toolbar (at the very top), or the MAIL HEADER Toolbar (that contains the To/From/Subject/Date/Time header details)?

Again, the 'Smart Reply' button is ONLY available in the HEADER toolbar.

That said, I don't have a Mac, so cannot confirm/deny that this button is or is not available on the Mac version, although I would be *very* surprised if it weren't.

#32

And more importantly, can only be ADDED TO the EMail Header Toolbar, NOT the main Menu toolbar up top. If you are trying to drag it to the top one, it will not work.