The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Dale Ghent <address@concealed>]

We added Sender header generation in our installation of Sympa in  
order to keep compatibility with the procmail filters of list  
subscribers when we moved from Listproc to Sympa.

/dale

On Nov 14, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> We never considered adding this header field until your raised the  
> point.
> There seem to be some controversy though :
> http://www.greatcircle.com/list-managers/mhonarc/list-managers. 
> 199712/msg00081.html
>
> What do your users use the Sender: header field ?
> Could they use either List-Id or X-Loop instead ?
>
> Jeff Abbott wrote:
> > Something that one of our users noticed in our migration away from  
> > Majordomo to Sympa is that Sympa doesn't appear to set a Sender  
> > header for messages going to the list.  Majordomo sends messages  
> > with a Sender header set to LISTNAME-owner@site (e.g. foo- 
> > address@concealed, for a list named foo at our Majordomo site), which  
> > is also the envelope sender.  Does Sympa do this and I've simply  
> > overlooked something or haven't properly set something somewhere?   
> > I believe that if it doesn't do it already this functionality  
> > should be added because, according to RFC 2822:
> >
> >    The "Sender:" field specifies the
> >    mailbox of the agent responsible for the actual transmission of  
> > the
> >    message.  For example, if a secretary were to send a message for
> >    another person, the mailbox of the secretary would appear in the
> >    "Sender:" field and the mailbox of the actual author would  
> > appear in
> >    the "From:" field.  If the originator of the message can be  
> > indicated
> >    by a single mailbox and the author and transmitter are  
> > identical, the
> >    "Sender:" field SHOULD NOT be used.  Otherwise, both fields SHOULD
> >    appear.
> >
> > I view Sympa as the "secretary" in this case, sending out the  
> > message on behalf of the user who sent it to the list.  I'd be  
> > willing to try to throw something together to add a Sender header  
> > (which would be identical to the envelope sender) if there were  
> > any interest in this feature.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff


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Dale Ghent
UNIX Systems Specialist
UMBC - Office of Information Technology
ECS 201 - x51705