Re: Mailing list changes

From: Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz_at_musoftware.de>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:22:55 +0100
Message-ID: <20180312222255.GA3308@trixie.musoftware.de>
What you say sounds a bit old-fashioned, but this list is partially
old-fashioned so it's ok:)

There is RFC 2919 (from 2001) that describes the "List-Id" header. It was set
even by my old majordomo list manager. Most of todays mailing lists set this
header. Filtering should be based on this header, not on the "To:" field.
There's also a "Precedence:" header that marks the email as coming from a
list.

Anyway, as long as no one complains, I will leave the headers as they are now.
It worked for years with majordomo. Thanks for the feedback!

Regards


        Uz


On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 05:03:52PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:37:16PM +0100, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:
> >
> > You are welcome!
> >
> > I've changed the configuration so that the original "To:" header is now
> > preserved. Will check when this mail comes back via the list. According to the
> > mlmmj docs this is not the recommended behavior. Is there any reason you need
> > the old behavior?
>
> That works, thanks!
>
> Any email addressed only to me is flagged in my mail reader.  Because it
> is probably something that requires my immediate attention.  If now mailing
> lists start to do this rewriting this will no longer stand out.
>
> Rewriting emails makes it impossible to make a mailing list archive
> from a subscriber account, since the email is different for every
> subscriber.  This also makes it impossible to just import emails if
> you missed some, as well.  Etc.
>
> Rewriting emails is just bad.  Don't do it.  Who is recommending that?!
>
>
> Segher

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