An Anonymous, No-reply List
I have a customer who wants a announce-only list. She does not want any replies to the list or to the poster.
In production we are running 2.1.13, and I have 2.1.14 on my test machine. We made the list anonymous
anonymous_list = yesand the resulting mail from the list has a header line:
Reply-To: LISTNAME@nodenameso all replies go back to the list. I tried
reply_goes_to_list - Explicit address
reply_to_address: user@example.comand the resulting mail from the list has a header line:
Reply-To: user@example.com, LISTNAME@nodenameThis results in replies going to both the list and to the explicit address. What I want is either
a) no "Reply-To:" line in the RFC 5322 mail header (With no
sender info nor reply info, I have no idea the address to which
an MUA will direct any reply.)or b) Reply-To: user@example.com
Is this possible? If not, then we will have to set
member_moderation_action = Reject
member_moderation_notice = Some polite text - This is an outbound
list only.Thanks.
Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 240, Room 5.B.8 Internet: BSFinkel@anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994
I did this before.
What I did was set both "member_moderation_action" and "generic_nonmember_action" to discard and added the email addresses who need to send emails to "accept_these_nonmembers".
After that everything worked as you would like. No replies and people couldn't email each other. Also, if you keep the default settings the email account that is shown is the address of the list.
Barry Finkel wrote:
Why, Is this needed or is it just an attempt to make replies not go to the poster?
If you set first_strip_reply_to to Yes, the LISTNAME entry should be removed.
If you set first_strip_reply_to to Yes and reply_goes_to_list to Poster, there should be no Reply-To: header in list mail which means "reply" will be to the From: address which is the poster or the list in the case of an anonymous list.
You need to do that anyway because nothing prevents a member from doing "reply all" or in some other way addressing a message to the list or to the poster if the list is not anonymous.
See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/3YA9>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
I did this before.
What I did was set both "member_moderation_action" and "generic_nonmember_action" to discard and added the email addresses who need to send emails to "accept_these_nonmembers".
After that everything worked as you would like. No replies and people couldn't email each other. Also, if you keep the default settings the email account that is shown is the address of the list.
Barry Finkel wrote:
Why, Is this needed or is it just an attempt to make replies not go to the poster?
If you set first_strip_reply_to to Yes, the LISTNAME entry should be removed.
If you set first_strip_reply_to to Yes and reply_goes_to_list to Poster, there should be no Reply-To: header in list mail which means "reply" will be to the From: address which is the poster or the list in the case of an anonymous list.
You need to do that anyway because nothing prevents a member from doing "reply all" or in some other way addressing a message to the list or to the poster if the list is not anonymous.
See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/3YA9>.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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