On Monday 14 February 2005 10:28, Dirk wrote:
Hi guys,
usually I set up my mail delivery so that postings from lists go to
different directories. I do this using procmail. But with the lilux
listing this does not work because the mail headers do not contain the
necessary information.
Is it possible to set up the mailman system to add or change the
"Reply-To:" line to "Reply-To: lilux-help(a)lilux.lu"?. This would
also
keep the threads posted on the list alive so everyone benifits from the
answers to posted queries.
To give an example: This mail may interest Jonny X on this list and he
may look forward to answers to it. If the mailman system makes the
reply-to change he will get the answer if one is sent. If mailman does
not make the change the he will only get the replies if the person
making the reply adds lilux-help to the To: or Cc: lines, which is
arbitrary. At the moment it seems to me that lots of answers to queries
immediately go off line, which is too bad, because it limits the value
of the listing archives.
It's just an idea, you may have reasons not to do it, but it would help
me in keeping my mailboxes in order.
Thanks for any replies,
Dirk....
PS reply to the list not to me.
The lists are set up _on_purpose_ that by default replies don't go to
the list.
This is in order to avoid accidentally sending emails intended to be
private to the list. An explicit action (reply all) is needed to
answer to the list. Indeed, the consequence of sending a mail that is
intended to be private to a public list are considered to be more
damaging than the inverse error (sending a mail privatly that should
be sent to the list). Indeed, for the second case, just resending it
to the list fixes the problem, whereas in the other case, you cannot
usually unsend it...
However, there are still a couple of headers which can be used for the
purpose of sorting:
To: LiLux <lilux-help(a)lilux.lu>
X-BeenThere: lilux-help(a)lilux.lu
List-Id: Questions about Linux <lilux-help.lilux.lu>
...
As far as I know, procmail can use any header as a sort key (List-Id
looks best for this purpose)
Alain