"from" column question--how can we get our name to appear instead of the email address?
Hello:
We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column?
When I send messages from my Outlook account to any other address its says my name in the From box. When I send messages to the mailman listserv it lists the email address of the listserv in the From box.
Please help!
Thanks
Avi M. Spiegel wrote:
We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column?
When I send messages from my Outlook account to any other address its says my name in the From box. When I send messages to the mailman listserv it lists the email address of the listserv in the From box.
See the FAQ entry at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
At 7:14 PM -0400 2004-06-29, Avi M. Spiegel wrote:
We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column?
See <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp>.-- Brad Knowles, brad.knowles@skynet.be
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.
SAGE member since 1995. See http://www.sage.org/ for more info.
On 7/1/2004 12:02, "Brad Knowles" brad.knowles@skynet.be wrote:
At 7:14 PM -0400 2004-06-29, Avi M. Spiegel wrote:
We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column?
See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp.
Hi, Avi,
But keep in mind that users are also being conditioned to view vaguely familiar or unknown names in the From column as being likely spam, thanks to the creativity of the current crop of spammers.
You'll likely have a different set of list users toss the messages after you make the change. The intersection of the two sets probably isn't empty, either.
--John
--On Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:14 pm -0400 "Avi M. Spiegel" amspiegel@americansforkerry.com wrote:
Hello:
We are trying to send out a mailman message. When people receive our message, the mailman email address is listed in the from column and people think it's spam. How can we make it so that the name of the person posting is listed in the from column?
By default, that shouldn't happen. The From: header shouldn't be touched.
Check that the header munging settings in the general preferences for the list are untouched.
Of course it *could* be that the mail client is at fault. It has several header fields that it could be looking at. If its looking at the sender field instead of the From: field, then change the settings in the mail client, or get a sensible mail client if you can't fix that.
When I send messages from my Outlook account to any other address its says my name in the From box. When I send messages to the mailman listserv it lists the email address of the listserv in the From box.
A listserv isn't a mailing list. Its a rival mailing list manager. Calling it a mailman listserv (actually, Mailman LISTSERV is like calling your vacuum cleaner a Dyson Hoover - calculated to upset both Dyson and Hoover, because Dyson don't make Hoovers.
Please help!
Thanks
Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
-- Ian Eiloart Servers Team Sussex University ITS
participants (5)
-
Avi M. Spiegel -
Brad Knowles -
iane＠sussex.ac.uk -
John W. Baxter -
Mark Sapiro