[Nottingham] [Maillist] 'Munging' the "From" mail headers on this list?

[Martin]

On 23/05/16 09:53, Roger Light via Nottingham wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Jason Irwin via Nottingham
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Having lived with the new system for a while, it's really annoying to not
>> have the sender's name in the "From" part of the email listing.


> I'm scratching my head a bit here. It seems to work for me in exactly
> the way you are asking.
> 
> The headers for your message were:
> 
> From: Jason Irwin via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Reply-To: Jason Irwin <jasoni...>,
>  Notts GNU/Linux Users Group <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>


> Nothing appears to have been lost from the pre-dkim changes.
> 
> Let's stick with the defaults, they seem to have been well chosen.


The defaults chosen look to be the best to:

1: Correctly pass the DKIM checks and;
2: To keep visible all the detail from pre-DKIM operation.


However, inevitably, this now means:

(All fully correct and by design)

The name that appears in the "From" is whatever has been set by the user
when subscribing to the maillist. If the name is not set or some weird
ponderous alias has been used, then that is what is seen;

To reply to a posting, you now need to select to "reply to maillist" or
"reply to all" with whatever mail reader/client you use.


Assuming normal users, that means:

We'll get a few blanks and sillies for the "From" names;

And you can bet some will blindly hit just the "Reply" and then wonder
why their post doesn't appear on the maillist.



One notable aspect is that there has been no comment about address
harvesting for spamming. So, I guess not too bad a problem.

(Or are we all tech savvy and use a maillist-specific email address?!)


Cheers,
Martin





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