I run a list where the vast majority of the users are using a broken mail client which for some reason uses the Return-Path address instead of the Reply To or From address when responding to the mailing list. These users can't change their mail client and I need to find a workaround to deal with it.
Basically the list members are replying to the list at the -request address. I need to find some way to allow messages sent to that address to be cleaned of bounces (one of the main reasons I switched to Smartlist is for bounce cleaning) and send the valid messages back to the list at the correct address. The mailing list is moderated, so if a few bad messages end up going back to the list that's fine, we can not approve those, but I need all the valid messages to go back to the list.
Any ideas how best to accomplish this? I'm not very procmail savvy and I'm not quite sure exactly what checks the -request list goes through before sending it to the owner, and where is the best place to change the address so it doesn't go to owner.
Thanks for your help!
-Cari D. Burstein cdaveb@anybrowser.org
|Ye have enemies? Good, good- that means ye've stood up for | | something, sometime in thy life.... -Elminster of Shadowdale | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Cari D. Burstein cdaveb@anybrowser.org | | http://www.anybrowser.org/cdaveb/ |
Zitiere "Cari D. Burstein" cdaveb@csua.berkeley.edu:
I run a list where the vast majority of the users are using a broken mail client which for some reason uses the Return-Path address instead of the
Reply To or From address when responding to the mailing list. These users can't change their mail client and I need to find a workaround to deal with it.
You would need to modify rc.request heavily or imclude a complicated rc.local.sxx file there at the right place.
That's definitely a lot of work for which you won't find any volunteers. And you need to know procmail and SmartList very good.
IMHO it would be probably much easier to fix the broken mail client or to convince the people not to reply but instead to compose a new message, copy/paste the parts they are replying to.
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Hmm...
Sounds like a pretty lame MUA...
Another possible angle for experimentation *could* be to somehow munge the Return-Path address -- i.e. set that to be the actual name of the list, rather than list-request.
Pete.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Cari D. Burstein wrote:
[MUA is] replying to the list at the -request address.
For those curious about what happened, I first tried changing the rc.request to send messages to the list if they went unprocessed. But this seemed to cause some sort of nasty loop for many of them. So I ended up changing it instead to send those messages directly to the list approval address, which seems to be working. So I think things are resolved, although it still seems like an overly hacky solution to me.
--On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 9:44 PM -0700 "Cari D. Burstein" cdaveb@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
: I run a list where the vast majority of the users are using a broken mail : client which for some reason uses the Return-Path address instead of the : Reply To or From address when responding to the mailing list. These users : can't change their mail client and I need to find a workaround to deal : with it. : : Basically the list members are replying to the list at the -request : address. I need to find some way to allow messages sent to that address : to be cleaned of bounces (one of the main reasons I switched to Smartlist : is for bounce cleaning) and send the valid messages back to the list at : the correct address. The mailing list is moderated, so if a few bad : messages end up going back to the list that's fine, we can not approve : those, but I need all the valid messages to go back to the list. : : Any ideas how best to accomplish this? I'm not very procmail savvy and : I'm not quite sure exactly what checks the -request list goes through : before sending it to the owner, and where is the best place to change the : address so it doesn't go to owner. : : Thanks for your help!
-Cari D. Burstein cdaveb@anybrowser.org
|Ye have enemies? Good, good- that means ye've stood up for | | something, sometime in thy life.... -Elminster of Shadowdale | |---------------------------------------------------------------| | Cari D. Burstein cdaveb@anybrowser.org | | http://www.anybrowser.org/cdaveb/ |
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