Mailing list administrivia

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Kenneth Brody propounded (on Sun, May 03, 2015 at 02:55:45PM -0400):
| On 4/23/2015 1:15 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
| >I updated the Mailman mailing list manager this morning to deal
| >with delivery problems with some sites (e.g. Yahoo!) that are
| >picky about DMARC compliance.  The primary effect will be that
| >the From: address will appear as the posting address for the
| >list, not the original sender's From:.
| >
| >Any existing Reply-To: header should be untouched.  The original
| >user's From: address should be put in a Reply-To: if I understand
| >the Mailman documentation.
| 
| (Catching up on old mail.  Not sure yet if this has changed.)
| 
| My vote:  I don't like it.
| 
| If for no other reason, when I see all the messages on the list, they all
| show as being from "FilePro Mailing List" rather than the real sender.  As
| long as you're munging "From:" would it be possible to at least keep the
| name part unchanged?
| 
| As in:
| 
|     From: "Kenneth Brody" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
| 
| Not sure if that's any better, but at least it would show the sender's name
| without having to read every message first.

I had the same reaction, Ken, but I've worked around it.  Every message
that comes from the fPlist is edited thus before hitting its mailbox:

	sed '
	/^From:/d
	/^Reply-To:/s//From:/i\
	Reply-To: filePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>'

I do that in a "deliver' script.  That's a classic program from Chip
Salzenberg; folks nowadays use procmail for the purpose.

-- 
JP