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Comment author: Error 30 April 2016 03:24:35AM 0 points [-]

It's a matter of integration: I want the same settings, and client software, that you use for the rest of the forum to apply to privmsgs.

I don't share the preference, but I don't think this represents a conflict. There's no reason a web client couldn't present one UI to its users while doing two different things on the back end, IMAP for PMs and whatever else for the forum. Newsreaders do exactly that to support reply-by-email, and it works fine from what I've seen.