Feature Requests item #923122, was opened at 2004-03-25 14:01 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by kberry You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=923122&group_id=103 Category: None Group: None
Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: karl berry (kberry) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: reply_goes_to_list allow poster+list option
Initial Comment: Right now, the reply_goes_to_list option allows (a) poster, (b), list, and (c) explicit. How about (d) poster AND list? That is, insert/override a reply-to: header containing both the list name, and the original reply-to (if present, else From: address). For extra credit, omit the original poster if they are a list member. This would be very useful for a number of lists I maintain, where 90% of the traffic is among the list members (hence having a simple reply go to the list), yet a few messages come in from the outside world (hence including the original poster's address). I'm using mailman 2.1.4 on GNU/Linux. Thanks, karl@freefriends.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Comment By: karl berry (kberry) Date: 2004-11-25 18:40
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=33248 Whatever. There's obviously no point in debating it, since you think it is so terribly horrible and I don't see the problem with helping users, regardless of what "standards" would like to impose on us. So I'll try to mark this closed, and we can get on with our lives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brad Knowles (shub) Date: 2004-11-25 18:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18417 The problem is that this idea is likely to cause a number of programs to break, probably pretty badly. I think this is a very bad idea. We don't want to be doing things to encourage people to break the standards, especially since most people who would use this option would not understand the true scope of the problem. Using two "Reply-to:" headers doesn't resolve this issue, either. If you want to munge the "Reply-to:" header to point back to the list, then Mailman gives you the ability to do that. It's a bad idea, for the reasons laid out in the FAQ, but you do have that capability. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: karl berry (kberry) Date: 2004-11-25 18:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=33248 I'm trying to help my users avoid a fairly common mistake, not engage in arguments about standards. Fine, Reply-to: list, poster may not work for the population of some lists. So those lists won't enable it. Meanwhile, it will help some people and lists, and there's no other way to accomplish the behavior (that I know of). It's trivial to add and a tiny change in the user interface. I am not asking for per-user control of this, which is what the FAQ entry you cited mostly discusses. Obviously some compromise has already been made with the "reply-to considered harmful" stance. (For which I am very thankful, because it is very useful.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brad Knowles (shub) Date: 2004-11-25 15:26 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18417 I don't think this is possible. "Reply-to:" goes back to one address, not two. The action of having multiple "Reply-to:" headers is also undefined, and some clients may work the way you want, while others may work in ways you do not. Pretty much everything to do with "Reply-to:" is really a client problem, and needs to be solved there. See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/ faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.048.htp> for details. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: URA Hiroshi (ura) Date: 2004-05-10 10:44 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1007264 I uploaded the patch by different method. see following URL: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=951167&group_id=103&atid=300103 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=923122&group_id=103