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[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi Marcin,

Thanks for this bug fix. I applied it to the 6.1 branch and it will be 
integrated to the 6.1.10 tag. Coming soon!

Best regards,

David

Le 05/04/12 14:20, Marcin Wołoszyn a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest a fix that should be taken under consideration.
>
> Spoiler
> =======
>
> * Given Sympa list config contain:
>
>   value sender
>   apply forced
>
> * Someone sends an email to the list. Email gets distributed.
>
> * If an subscriber is using MS Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird
>   and he presses "Reply" - Sympa list email address goes inside
>   "To:" field.
>
> This behavior is wrong -the docs say that message sender email address 
> should appear inside "To:" field.
>
> More
> ====
>
> According to the docs at: 
> http://www.sympa.org/manual/parameters-sending#reply_to_header or help 
> inside wwsympa web interface:
>
> [QUOTE]
> The reply_to_header parameter starts a paragraph defining what Sympa 
> will place in the Reply-To: SMTP header field of the messages it 
> distributes.
>
> value sender | list | all | other_email (Default value: sender)
> This parameter indicates whether the Reply-To: field should indicate 
> the sender of the message (sender), the list itself (list), both list 
> and sender (all) or an arbitrary email address (defined by the 
> other_email parameter).
> [/QUOTE]
>
> and
>
> [QUOTE]
> apply respect | forced (Default value: respect).
> The default is to respect (preserve) the existing Reply-To: SMTP 
> header field in incoming messages. If set to forced, the Reply-To: 
> SMTP header field will be overwritten.
> [/QUOTE]
>
> The way Sympa behaves when:
> value sender
> apply forced
> is set is that it sends mail with no "Reply-To" header, with list 
> email address in "X-Original-To" and sender in "From" field.
>
> I consider Sympa to be extremally reliable piece of software and as I 
> suppose given behavior is fully RFC compilant, but Microsoft Outlook 
> and Mozilla Thunderbird in case if there is no "Reply-To" and there is 
> "X-Original-To" - those clients are ignoring "From" and they treat 
> "X-Original-To" as an address to reply. This is not how mentioned 
> above docs say Sympa should behave, and at least for those MUAs - an 
> address to reply is not as is is supposed to be. As Sympa is in most 
> (every?) case part of a greater deployment - it needs to work as it is 
> supposed in every case.
>
> Below is fix that i belive should be applied. Applying this change to 
> the Sympa source might require to be listed in new release info, 
> because it will force Sympa list admins to check their configurations, 
> at least if they were changing default apply respect to force .
>
> Fix
> ===
>
> diff -U 10 src/lib/List.pm.orig src/lib/List.pm
> --- src/lib/List.pm.orig        2012-04-05 13:24:41.552080900 +0200
> +++ src/lib/List.pm     2012-04-05 13:26:19.107876100 +0200
> @@ -2683,21 +2683,21 @@
>      ## Change the reply-to header if necessary.
>      if ($self->{'admin'}{'reply_to_header'}) {
>         unless ($hdr->get('Reply-To') && 
> ($self->{'admin'}{'reply_to_header'}{'apply'} ne 'forced')) {
>             my $reply;
>
>             $hdr->delete('Reply-To');
>
>             if ($self->{'admin'}{'reply_to_header'}{'value'} eq 'list') {
>                 $reply = "$name\@$host";
>             }elsif ($self->{'admin'}{'reply_to_header'}{'value'} eq 
> 'sender') {
> -               $reply = undef;
> +               $reply = $hdr->get('From');
>             }elsif ($self->{'admin'}{'reply_to_header'}{'value'} eq 
> 'all') {
>                 $reply = "$name\@$host,".$hdr->get('From');
>             }elsif ($self->{'admin'}{'reply_to_header'}{'value'} eq 
> 'other_email') {
>                 $reply = 
> $self->{'admin'}{'reply_to_header'}{'other_email'};
>             }
>
>             $hdr->add('Reply-To',$reply) if $reply;
>         }
>      }