Hi guys,
So I just recently purchased a mailman 2.1.39 hosted list from
mailmanlists.org. I'm trying to start a mailing list for my gliding club
where most of the membership is not terribly technologically literate
(fortunately I am) and not big on reading directions, so I'm trying to
keep it as simple and as least error-prone as possible for our club
members. I have ran into 2 problems that could potentially cause a
member to think he's sending an e-mail to the list, but actually isn't.
Problem #1:
One of my friends (who isn't tech savvy and doesn't read
directions) was my guinea pig and successfully joined. The problem is he
tried to send his first e-mail to the list by simply replying to the
welcome e-mail, so he e-mailed [email protected] and not
[email protected]. Wouldn't surprise me if others do the same
thing. Is there any option to change the address the welcome e-mail
comes from? Is there any other good ways to mitigate this problem?
The other has to do with the replying and the "nodupes" feature. So
first, I am trying to keep the list as collaborative as possible and
have people replying to messages to the whole list and not to the
original sender. first_strip_reply_to is on, reply_goes_to_list is set
to "This list" and from_is_list is set to "Munge From". So here's the
scenario about how an e-mail that should have gone to the list actually
just went to an individual user:
1) Bob sends an e-mail to the list.
2) Steve replies all (not just reply) to this e-mail. This sends it
both to [email protected] and [email protected].
3) The "nodupes" flag on Bob's account realizes Bob will get the
e-mail directly when Steve e-mailed [email protected] as part of the
reply and the other part of the reply to [email protected] is
stripped away (at least for Bob) so that Bob doesn't get the reply twice.
4) Now Bob hits reply (not reply all) to the reply e-mail, but
since the reply e-mail he received was sent directly to
[email protected] and not the reply e-mail that went through
[email protected] the reply address is [email protected],
not [email protected].
5) The reply to the reply is now just addressed to Steve, not the
whole list!
I couldn't find any combination of first_strip_reply_to,
reply_goes_to_list and from_is_list to make this problem go away and
keep everyone on the list regardless of reply or reply all. The
anonymous_list option solves it, but then it strips the original
sender's name (not just their e-mail address) and I don't want that.
Keeping "Bob via my-list ([email protected])" without
[email protected] in the Cc, From fields or anywhere else would be
ideal, but I can't figure out how to make that happen. Anybody have any
ideas?
Thanks!
Omri
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