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[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

filePro Mailing List propounded (on Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 05:20:10PM -0700):
| On Fri, Apr 24, 2015, Jean-Pierre A. Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
| ...
| >| I've seen no other messages on the fP list since this one.  Did the
| >| change to Mailman cause an outage?
| >| 
| >| -- 
| >| JP
| >
| >OK, no outage, my message came through; but as promised, it shows in my
| >MUA's list of the messages in my mailbox as being from "filePro Mailing
| >List", not as being from me. When I reply to the message, you see above
| >that my MUA then uses "filePro Mailing List", not my name, to show who's
| >being quoted.
| >
| >This should not abide.
| 
| I don't like it either, but without munging the From: header,
| several large services that use strict DMARC rules which prevent
| them from accepting email where the IP of the machine sending the
| list traffic isn't listed as a valid IP for the domain of the
| Sender.  Services using this include Comcast, Yahoo! and others I
| don't remember offhand.
| 
| The first attempt to handle this with the Mailman MLM was to
| guess which receiving hosts did DMARC testing, but that wasn't
| reliable so they modified the behaviour to do it for all list
| traffic.
| 
| On the other hand, I'm replying to this list message with mutt's
| 'L' to send to the list, and the outgoing headers look perfectly
| normal to me.



OK, I can change the index_format in mutt to use %f instead of %F, so
every message shows who actually is the author.

Replying is anither can of worms.  If I hit 'r', mutt uses

     To: Bill Campbell via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>

If I hit 'L'. mutt does

	To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com

Same destination with a cleaner moniker.

But how do I reply off-list, to Bill Campbell directly?  No can do! The
string "bill at celestial.com" has been zapped from any Header by your new
Mailman procedures.  Yeah, OK, you've got it in your signature block
(which most people do not) but mutt can't extract it with the tap of a
key.

-- 
JP