Mailing list administrivia

[Bruce Easton]

On 4/25/15 2:54 PM, Jay Ashworth via Filepro-list wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Campbell via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 8:20:10 PM
>> Subject: Re: Mailing list administrivia
>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015, Jean-Pierre A. Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> 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.
> This was a standard 'R'eply with Zimbra 6, and not only is the attribution
> usable, if not perfect, but the "To" isn't the list, as usual.  (Zimbra
> doesn't do Reply To List)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
Gosh - all this time I've been copying the list email into the To 
address instead of using Thunderbird's "Reply List" button.  Thanks, Jay.

In Thunderbird, this does seem to be behaving as Bill has described.  
Aside from the odd-looking From address, all involved parties are 
represented in the header.

Bruce of Easton, Duke of Earl
bruce at stn.com