On Friday, March 03, 2017 02:53:26 PM The Wanderer wrote: > Because hitting New means you have to put in the To address, but hitting > Reply means the address is already there and you can just start typing > your message (and possibly delete the quoted text, change the Subject > line, et cetera). > > Yes, this apparently is enough of a convenience factor to affect > people's behavior.
Just to add $0.02 (I don't know who it belongs to, so didn't call it "my $0.02")--in kmail, just right click on the address to which you want to send the new email, and choose "New Message to" from the context menu...