[TriLUG] From field munging

[Aaron Schrab via TriLUG]

>On 02/20/2017 03:15 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Aaron Schrab sure called it right in the following post:
>>
>> http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20150209/073359.html

The list configuration has improved at least somewhat since I wrote 
that. It is now setup so that the sender's address will at least be 
preserved in the Reply-To: header so that it's at least *possible* to 
reply only to the sender by removing other recipients from the reply.  
But that might be non-obvious if a mail client shows only the name of 
the recipient and hides the email address as many GUI clients will do.

Even before munging of the From field was enabled the list was 
configured to set the Reply-To to the list, so that it would still be 
very easy to mistakenly send to the entire list.

At 11:10 -0500 21 Feb 2017, Kevin Otte wrote:
>I raised objections to this policy when it was first implemented but was
>told it had already been decided and that my input would not be considered.
>
>As the list admin for linux-ham@ I did a little poking around.
>
>The setting in Mailman to munge the From field says:
>"If setting this to Yes, it is advised to set the MTA to DKIM sign all
>emails."
>
>TriLUG does not do this. In fact, your post still bears the DKIM
>information for troubleshooters.com, which caused my spam filter to
>raise the score (not enough to tag it thankfully) due to the mismatch.

Setting up DKIM is on my to-do list, but I have no idea when I'll get 
around to it.

>There is another option in the configuration to wrap the original
>poster's message as MIME message/rfc822. This does require opening the
>nested message to reply to the right place. I'm not sure how desirable
>this will be from a UX standpoint.

Whether or not you need to open the nested message to reply to the right 
place depends on which place is considered right. I doubt if being able 
to reply to just the sender by using the nested message would help in 
cases like this, it's still completely different actions than replying 
to every other message.

Also, from reports there it seems that at least Thunderbird makes it 
more difficult to quote the original message. Although in some ways that 
could  be an additional benefit, since it could help cut down on people 
quoting the entire original message. But, again, that's requiring a 
different set of actions than with most replies.
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