Re: [Exim] Rewriting From: for mailinglist?

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Author: dman
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Rewriting From: for mailinglist?
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:30:00PM +0100, Oliver Dawid wrote:
| hi dman,

|
| On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, dman wrote:

|
| > No, No, No, and No! Don't do that! If you do that, how will you ever
| > know who wrote the message? And suppose you (at some point in time)

|
| (-:

|
| >     http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

|
| thanks. i agree with most of the aspects the author says about munging the
| Reply-To in email headers.

|
| > and consider upgrading to a mailer that comprehends mailing lists.
| > The problem is an end-user tool (MUA) problem, not a MTA problem.

|
| yes you are right - i really agree with you.


:-).

| i just want to find a way, to make it easy for all users (win and
| linux with all kind of brain-dead
| mua's)


mutt works great on both :-). So does gnus, or so I've heard.

(those are the only mailers that I know of that understand the concept
of a mailing list)

| to get their mail to the list easily. this is only for one special
| list - i dont consider using it for the rest.


Alright, not an easy task to convince Lookout users that other tools
really do exist ;-).

| ok rewriting the From: line isn't the solution although in the envelope
| the sender is still present (but who is looking at the envelope).


Much of the time the envelope isn't present once delivery is complete.

| can you tell me, how to add a Reply-To: if it is not there? this would be
| the best way i can think of. like

|
| if $reply_to is unset
| then
| $reply_to = my_list@mydomain
| endif


Perhaps

    headers_add = "Reply-To: ${if eq {$h_Reply-To:}{} {my_list@domain} {$h_Reply-To:}}"


will do it, but I'm not sure if it just adds the header or if it
creates a duplicate header with that data in it.

Reading the manual closer, I think this is what you want
    headers_add = "Reply-To: ${if !eq {$h_Reply-To:}{} {my_list@domain} fail }"
or even
    headers_add = "Reply-To: ${if !def:h_Reply-To: {my_list@domain} fail }"


OTOH this may be even more confusing to people if replying to some
messages go to the list and others go to the sender (his reply-to
addr).

-D

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