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

[Martin]

On 23/05/16 11:36, Jason Irwin via Nottingham wrote:
> (Sorry for SPAM Roger, my first reply went just to yourself rather than
> the list for some reason)

Yep, I'm using Thunderbird and I get the options to:


Reply (Goes to BOTH the sender AND to the maillist)

Reply List (Replies to the maillist only)

Reply All (Same as just the Reply for this case)


> On 23/05/16 09:53, Roger Light wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> For most people (e.g. Martin) in the "From" column all I see is "Notts
> GNU/Linux Users Group".
> This particular email is one of the very few that shows an actual name,
> your others on "Single Board Computers" *do not* have you name in the
> "From".
> 
> I have not idea why mine is different, AIUI you should be seeing "Jason"
> in the "From" as that is what I set when subscribing to the list.

Indeed, on the maillist, you have entered only "Jason".

In the mail headers, I see:

 From: Jason Irwin via Nottingham <...>
 Reply-To: Jason Irwin <...>, Notts GNU/Linux Users Group <...>


And from a direct email from you from gmail I see:

 From: Jason Irwin <...>


Hence...

The maillist must have some intelligence to pull your name from whatever
you have set on the client/system you use to /send/ your email.

That seems to make the name you set on the maillist to be only of use to
ourselves to help identify whatever weird email address people subscribe
with...


Cheers,
Martin



-- 
- ╔═══════════════════╦══════════════════════════════════════════╗
- ║   Martin Lomas    ║ OpenPGP (GPG/PGP) Public Key: 0xCEE1D3B7 ║
- ║ martin@ ml1 co uk ║ Import from   hkp://subkeys.pgp.net   or ║
- ║ ----------------- ║ http:// ml1 .co .uk/martin_ml1_co_uk.gpg ║
- ╚═══════════════════╩══════════════════════════════════════════╝