In 2.0.1 pipermail.py takes any user-included Reply-To header and uses that the address of the sender in the archives.
In other words, if I post a message to list that looks like this:
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:03:03 -0800 (PST) From: Darrell Fuhriman <darrell@grumblesmurf.net> Subject: something really neat! To: moderated-list@grumblesmurf.net Reply-To: not-moderated-list@elsewhere.com
in the Archives, this gets re-written to be:
Darrell Fuhriman <mailto:not-moderated-list@grumblesmurf.net>
I maintain that this behavior is incorrect.
For instance, I just started a moderated, announce-only list. I would like to give the poster the option of redirecting followups for discussion to another list.
I'm happy to write a patch to change the behavior, but I'd like to know what folks think the correct behavior should be.
I think that including the Reply-To as a separate header is the appropriate thing to do, but I'm soliciting other opinions.
Secondly, archiving is a big old pig and slows down list processing. Would it be possible to re-write the code so that the archiver forks off? Once again, I'm willing to do it, but I want to make sure that people will be happy with the design.
Darrell