At 10:38 PM 9/5/2001 +1000, Rod... Whitworth wrote:
>So what do you think of <this> list's behaviour?
>
>Messages coming from it have NO Reply-To Header line and as a result I
>have to hit CTL-R and where I normally get a choice of the group or a
>reply to the author (From) I just get (in this case you) and have to CC
>the list manually.

The simple answer which I have adopted for many lists is to use maildrop,
and its supporting cast of utilities. I believe that it is reasonable for
someone to reconfigure headers of mail that they have gotten way that they
want to, but it is probably not the right thing for postfix to do it. The
reformail command that comes with maildrop will add a header. Some of the
stuff in the middle is me removng mime cruft from list mail (where it
probably should not be anyway).

 if ( /^Sender:.*!(linux|talk)!-admin!flux\.org/ || \
        /^Sender:.*!bind-users!-bounce!isc\.org/ || \
        /^Sender:.*!firewalls!-owner!Lists\.GNAC\.NET/ || \
        /^Sender:.*!courier-maildrop!-admin!lists\.sourceforge\.net/ || \
        /^Sender:.*!security-discuss!-owner!linux-mandrake\.com/)
{
        ltalk=$MATCH2
        domain=$MATCH4
        if ( /^content-type:[:space:].*html/ || \
             /^content-type:[:space:].*multi/ || \
             /^content-type:[:space:].*rich/ || \
             /^X-MS-Attachment/ || \
             /^[:space:]+winmail.dat/:b || \
             /\*This message was transferred with a trial version of
CommuniGat\
e\(tm\) Pro\*/:b || \
             /^begin[:space:]+[:digit:]+[:space:]+winmail.dat/:b || \
             /^begin\s+[0-7]+[:space:]+[:graph:]+[:space:]*$/:b)
        {
                log "$ltalk$domain message demimed: $MATCH"
                # to "demime-njsscifi.squawk.com"
                xfilter $DEMIMEFILTER
        }
        if ( ! /^Reply-to:/)
        {
                log "$ltalk$domain message having Reply-To: $ltalk$domain
add\
ed."
                xfilter "/usr/local/bin/reformail -A'Reply-To:
$ltalk$domain'"
        }
}

[...]

>But in a way you are correct. The MTA does not need to mung the
>headers. The list software should do it properly in the first place.

And if the list does not do it, there are better tools. I was kind of
sorry to see postfix endorse procmail since I think that maildrop is worlds
better.

>>see http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>>
>>reply-to should *NOT* be set by mailing lists.

The person who wrote this is simply wrong. But that is another religious war.

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