What does LISTSERV set the From: message header to when sending out
digests?
This is something for which there is no guidance anywhere. When you're
sending out content based digests it seems reasonable to set the From:
message header to the address of the moderator. But what do you do when
the digest is size or time-based?
Setting it to the address of the list is problematic because there are
so many "broken" mailers out there that will send failed mail notices
and vacation notices and various other things to the From: message
header.
Setting it to the failed mail processor is better but there's always
people who reply to a digest and don't reset the To: header.
Setting it to something special that attempts to intuit what its really
got is probably the best, but even that will get messages that need to
be manually processed.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
Jim
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Roger Fajman wrote:
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 00:16:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Roger Fajman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Digest MIME types...
> Mailing list managers that appear to support multipart/digest include:
>
> Sympa (Source: http://www.spi.ens.fr/sympa/sympa/node4.html)
> Listproc 8.0 (Source: http://mlm.kentlaw.edu/)
> CommuniGate Pro (Source: http://www.stalker.com/communigatepro/LIST.html)
> EZMLM (Source: http://www.sumthin.nu/archives/ezmlm/May_1999/msg00028.html)
LISTSERV also supports multipart/digest. It uses it as the outer
content-type. The table of contents is a constructed message/rfc822
first in the multipart/digest.
