At Sat, 13 Feb 2021 23:00:20 +0900 "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Alex Bellig writes: > > I am interested in this option as well. Here is a scenario: > > When people send a message to the group and don't sign their name, > > I want their name to be picked from the membership list and > > mentioned at the top of the body as From: <name of the member> > > It will follow with their message in the body of the email. > > This is not possible to do reliably in email due to the control of the > relevant information by email authors. If it's merely an issue of > authors forgetting, then it could be done, but Mailman provides no > such feature. > > > So is there a variable that displays the name of the person and > > which template can we add it to. > > No. Personalization is designed for the benefit of the *recipient*. > So the variables that are available are the recipient's: their email > address, their personal options page, the archive URL, and the like. > > A variable identifying the sender should be unnecessary with a > typically configured list. Normally, the person's name and email > address are available as "From" in the email header. All mail clients > display this header field by default. If they are at one of the Actually, *some* mail clients don't display all of the From header, specificly some smart phone clients only display the e-mail address and not the comment -- I believe this is due to limited screen space. Often e-mail address can be cryptic or otherwise uninformative. Oh, and with DMARC From munging, the e-mail address on the from header will be the the list and not the original sender. > (obnoxious) commercial services that have restrictive DMARC policies, > >From can be set to something like > > From: "A. N. User via This Mailing List" <some-l...@example.net> > > and Reply-To (normally hidden by most mail clients) to > > Reply-To: "A. N. User" <u...@example.org>, > some-l...@example.net > > (where the reply-to some-list is optional, depending on whether > reply_to_list is set in the list configuration). This is a compromise > that avoids triggering bounces from recipients and allows somewhat > convenient reply-to-author. > > If you have set personalization to "full" or configured an "anonymous > list", then From is set to the list. But this is rarely desirable > behavior unless you want to conceal the author's identity, or it's an > announcement list where the list is the author in some sense, and the > identity of the human "secretary" who composed the message is > unimportant. If you want help configuring your list(s) to show the > original poster, we can provide that. > > Much as I hate to say it, if your users need this kind of feature, you > should consider migrating to a web forum instead of a mailing list. > Web forums are much more helpful in this way. Mailing lists, and > their developers, are biased to allowing (and requiring) their users > to take care of these things themselves. > > Steve > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/ > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
