[Mailman-Users] Munging and Reply All behaviour with Outlook - was Erratic mail delivery times

Peter Shute pshute at nuw.org.au
Mon Aug 18 04:46:30 CEST 2014


Further unwanted Reply All behaviour - a Lotus Notes user says when he sends a reply with Reply All, the list bounce address is Cc'd. It does include the list address too, which is good. 

Can it cause any problems to Cc the list bounce address?

Peter Shute 

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> From: Mailman-Users 
> [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+pshute=nuw.org.au at python.org] 
> On Behalf Of Peter Shute
> Sent: Monday, 18 August 2014 10:29 AM
> To: 'Mark Sapiro'; mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: [Mailman-Users] Munging and Reply All behaviour with 
> Outlook - was Erratic mail delivery times
> 
> We're now on a new list server, which is running v2.1.18-1. 
> We've set from_is_list to munged, and it's now sending list 
> messages from the list, and putting the original sender's 
> address in Reply To as expected.
> 
> On my iPad, Reply sends a message back to the original 
> sender, which is what we want. Reply To sends a message to 
> both the original sender and also the list, which is what we want.
> 
> Apparently gmail web interface works the same way, but 
> Outlook doesn't. Outlook sends Reply All to the original 
> sender and anyone else that was Cc'd, but not the list.
> 
> Is there a fix? Which other variables affect this?
> 
> Peter Shute
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mailman-Users
> > [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+pshute=nuw.org.au at python.org]
> > On Behalf Of Mark Sapiro
> > Sent: Tuesday, 22 July 2014 3:54 PM
> > To: mailman-users at python.org
> > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Erratic mail delivery times
> > 
> > On 07/21/2014 06:50 PM, Peter Shute wrote:
> > > 
> > > That was my impression too. It sounds less disruptive, but
> > I wonder if the resulting variability of behaviour of Reply 
> and Reply 
> > all would just cause confusion.
> > 
> > 
> > In 2.1.18-1, with minor exceptions, 'reply' and 'reply all' 
> > do the same things on a munged message as on a non-munged 
> message. The 
> > exceptions are due to the fact that in 2.1.18-1 the Munge 
> From action 
> > always puts the original From: in
> > Reply-To: so the original From: is always somewhere. The 
> implication 
> > of this is that with list settings first_strip_reply_to = Yes and 
> > reply_goes_to_list = This List, in the unmunged case, reply 
> goes only 
> > to the list and in the munged case, it goes to the list and the 
> > original
> > From: which may mean the original
> > From: gets a dupe or only a direct and not a list copy.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> > San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense 
> - B. Dylan
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