Rerouting "announce" replies to "talk" automatically
I'm trying to set up "announce" and "talk" lists for a neighborhood group. Let's say the addresses of these are announce@my.group and talk@my.group. As usual, "announce" is to be a one-way, no-reply list. I want replies addressed to "announce" to be automatically rerouted to "talk".
Following the advice at http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030685, I have set these under the announce@my.group General Options:
"first_strip_reply_to": Yes"reply_goes_to_list": Explicit address"reply_to_address": talk@my.group"include_list_post_header": No
Everything works fine, except when the recipient of an announce message hits reply-to-all. Then the "To:" line of the mail client is populated as talk@my.group; announce@my.group. So the reply goes back to the "announce" list as well as to "talk". Is there any way to set up the "announce" list so that reply-to-all does not include announce@my.group, or is that purely controlled by the mail client? (List members are not techies, and I have no control over the type and settings of the email clients they use.)
If I can't stop the reply-to-all from going back to "announce", is there any way to set up "announce" so it recognizes these replies and automatically discards them? (It will not work to just reject emails from list members, since all of them are authorized to send messages to the list.)
~ Thanks in advance
~ Ken
Ken Winter wrote:
Your settings are pretty much the best you can do. The explicit Reply-To: will override the From: as the reply address, but reply-all will generally include the To: which is the announce list, and may even, depending on the mail client, include the From:
Yes. On the announce list, set up a Privacy options... -> Spam filters -> header_filter_rules rule with an action of Discard and the following regexp
^(To:|Cc:).*[ <]talk@my\.group([, >]|$)
This will match any To: or Cc: header containing the talk@my.group address and will thus discard any post received by the announce list that was also addressed to the talk list.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Thank you, Mark!! ~
It worked!
I set up your spam rule, set it to "Reject" matching messages, then tried to reply-to-all to an "announce" message. I've never been so happy to receive a response saying "Message rejected by filter rule match"! And my reply was delivered to the "talk" list with no problem.
Then I set the anti-spam action to "Discard". Now Mailman smoothly reroutes the reply-to-all to "talk" and silently discards the one addressed to "announce", exactly as desired.
One more nice thing: "Announce" is a moderated list (for messages from all members). But the spam-filter trick doesn't even bother the moderator with a "post requires approval" when the post is an unwanted reply. Perfect.
~ Thanks again ~ Ken
Ken Winter wrote:
Your settings are pretty much the best you can do. The explicit Reply-To: will override the From: as the reply address, but reply-all will generally include the To: which is the announce list, and may even, depending on the mail client, include the From:
Yes. On the announce list, set up a Privacy options... -> Spam filters -> header_filter_rules rule with an action of Discard and the following regexp
^(To:|Cc:).*[ <]talk@my\.group([, >]|$)
This will match any To: or Cc: header containing the talk@my.group address and will thus discard any post received by the announce list that was also addressed to the talk list.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Thank you, Mark!! ~
It worked!
I set up your spam rule, set it to "Reject" matching messages, then tried to reply-to-all to an "announce" message. I've never been so happy to receive a response saying "Message rejected by filter rule match"! And my reply was delivered to the "talk" list with no problem.
Then I set the anti-spam action to "Discard". Now Mailman smoothly reroutes the reply-to-all to "talk" and silently discards the one addressed to "announce", exactly as desired.
One more nice thing: "Announce" is a moderated list (for messages from all members). But the spam-filter trick doesn't even bother the moderator with a "post requires approval" when the post is an unwanted reply. Perfect.
~ Thanks again ~ Ken
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