Mailman's Functional Spec for users
I'm new to Mailman and looking for how it treats address headers. Mailman CC'd a sender's subscribed address and I want to know if publishing this address is the intended behaviour, rather than BCC.
My problem is with the docs at wiki.list.org/DOC/Home. I haven't found a description of what a list manager does in terms of what behaviour to expect in use, rather than during configuration by users, manager or site admin.
The concept of a list manager is explained at www.list.org/mailman-member.txt, but not the basic operation. Page 'Introduction - What is GNU Mailman?' belies its heading and is focussed on 'How do I...' (e.g. 'How do I spell Mailman?'). I found only Reply-to headers mentioned in the List Administration Manual.
There's a lot to search and I don't know my way around as a developer. Where should I be looking?
On 2/1/23 16:51, Anthony wrote:
I'm new to Mailman and looking for how it treats address headers. Mailman CC'd a sender's subscribed address and I want to know if publishing this address is the intended behaviour, rather than BCC.
Yes. It is always intended to include the poster's address to enable off list replies except in the one case of anonymous lists.
My problem is with the docs at wiki.list.org/DOC/Home. I haven't found a description of what a list manager does in terms of what behaviour to expect in use, rather than during configuration by users, manager or site admin.
The concept of a list manager is explained at www.list.org/mailman-member.txt, but not the basic operation. Page 'Introduction - What is GNU Mailman?' belies its heading and is focussed on 'How do I...' (e.g. 'How do I spell Mailman?'). I found only Reply-to headers mentioned in the List Administration Manual.
There's a lot to search and I don't know my way around as a developer. Where should I be looking?
At the code. Mailman 2.1 is past end of life, so don't expect any documentation updates. I think you will find some info about this specific question at https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/view/head:/Mailman/...
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2023, at 5:44 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 2/1/23 16:51, Anthony wrote:
I'm new to Mailman and looking for how it treats address headers. Mailman CC'd a sender's subscribed address and I want to know if publishing this address is the intended behaviour, rather than BCC.
Yes. It is always intended to include the poster's address to enable off list replies except in the one case of anonymous lists.
My problem is with the docs [snip] There's a lot to search and I don't know my way around as a developer. Where should I be looking?
At the code. Mailman 2.1 is past end of life, so don't expect any documentation updates. I think you will find some info about this specific question at https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1/view/head:/Mailman/...
Kudos on the comment to code ratio! All is clarified at lines 204 and 272, many thanks for your help.
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