Mark.A.Lombardo wrote: > >I am totally confused, can you explain this please? > > >Where are replies to list messages directed? Poster is strongly recommended >for most mailing lists. > > >Poster > >This list > >Explicit address > > > > > > > > >Please can you explain this bit, for me, if this is set to poster, why does >everyone get the reply.
When a user tells his/her MUA (mail reader, email client) to 'reply' to the current message, the MUA is supposed to direct the reply to the address(es) in the Reply-To: header if any or to the address in From: if there is no Reply-To:. If the above is set to 'poster', Mailman makes no change to the From: or Reply-To: header of the message. If the above is set to 'this list' Mailman adds the list posting address to the addresses in the existing Reply-To: header if any and if first_strip_reply_to is No. Otherwise it just makes a Reply-To: with the list posting address. If the above is set to 'explicit address', it works like 'this list' except the address used is the address in reply_to_address instead of the list posting address. So, if the user tells the MUA to 'reply', it will generally work as you expect for any of the three cases. However, if the user tells the MUA to 'reply all', the MUA normally directs the reply as in the 'reply' case, but also adds every address in the To: and Cc: headers of the current message to the recipients of the 'reply all' Thus, if a user does 'reply all' to a post and the list posting address is in the To: or Cc: of the post, the reply will be sent to the list posting address as well as the poster and other addressees of the original message. If you don't want this, and you DO want to allow list members in general to post, then you have to arrange for the list posting address to NOT appear in the To: or Cc: headers of the posts which you CAN NOT do. I said in a prior post that Full Personalization, if you can enable it, can do this by replacing the To: address with the recipient's address, BUT this won't do for you because it also puts the list posting address in Cc: in order to falicate the ability to reply to the list if the user wants to. If you really do not want users to have the ability to reply to the list at all, as opposed to just when they do a simple 'reply' you have to set up the list as a one-way/announcement/newsletter list as described in the FAQ. You basically have two choices: 1) set reply_goes_to_list to Poster and teach your list members to use 'reply' to reply to the poster and 'reply all' to reply to the poster and the list. 2) prevent your list members from posting at all by setting up the list as described in the FAQ. At the risk of flogging a dead horse, you can't PREVENT your users from addressing replies to the list, you can only try to teach them not to or set up the list to not accept any posts from general list members. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp