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[Steve Shipway <address@concealed>]

Thanks to Soji Ikeda for accepting this patch into the tree so quickly!

Adam Bernstein posted: 
> 1. The patch needs to be expanded to handle Sympa's reply_to_header
> 'forced' setting.  The way it is now, replies to munged senders will be
> forced to the list, which is not great, especially if the list owner has
> actually chosen to force replies to sender.
>
> 2. The "reply to sender" function in WWSympa when viewing Web archives
> also needs to be modified to use the Reply-To header instead of From,
> and I'm not sure how to do that.  I get lost in the MhonArc area.

The original patch is supposed to set the 'from' as the list address, but 
additionally set a Reply-To of the original sender unless a Reply-To already 
exists.  In this way, if you have a Sympa Reply-to setting of 'reply to 
sender' with the 'respect existing reply-to' set, it will continue to work, 
though if you set 'force' option it will behave as you mention.  

Generally speaking, though, I think there should be no need to 'force' if you 
are setting reply-to:sender, as it is very unlikely that a sender would add a 
reply-to:list header themselves.  Any pre-existing reply-to would most likely 
be for some version of the sender address. You'd be more likely to 'force' if 
you want reply-to:list.

I agree that wwsympa should respect any Reply-To header when you click 'reply 
to sender'.

I've made an updated patch that allows for alternative formats in the From 
email address (as well as the From friendly name) so that you can have 
$from.invalid as well as $list@$host and $explicit; however I've been held up 
so haven't submitted it yet.  Soji has worked too fast for me!  I'll submit 
an additional patch suggestion for this.

Steve

Steve Shipway
University of Auckland ITS
UNIX Systems Design Lead
address@concealed
Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487