[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Transparent reply-to-mailing-list for broken mailers



On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 09:10 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] 1251868974.4290.6.camel@paddington.network.ursamundi.org>, Paul Johnson 
> wrote:
> >On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 16:53 -0600, ghe wrote:
> >> FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
> >>
> >> :0Hfhw
> >>
> >> * ^Return-Path: <bounce-debian-user=ghe=slsware.com@lists.debian.org>
> >>
> >> | $FORMAIL -i "Reply-To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>"
> >>
> >> (Note that my name is in the Return-Path.)
> >>
> >> No addy editing, no buttons that don't exist on all my broken email
> >> clients, and no surprises for others on the debian-user list...
> >
> >Wow, transparent reply-to-list for broken mailers:  Very nice!
> 
> It's not transparent.  It's rare, but some users do actually set the Reply-To 
> header (and expect you to use it); this trumps their setting irrecoverably.

I bet that could be worked around.  It's been a while since I dorked
around with procmail for mailing list management (since gmane just does
it better), I bet adding a second condition like...

* !^Reply-To:.*

to that rule.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


Reply to: