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  • From: Matt Taggart <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Anonymous - hiding email but retaining sender's name
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 11:14:22 -0700

Hi Steve!

On 9/3/19 5:52 PM, Steve Shipway wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-09-03 at 23:35 +0200, Stefan Reichel wrote:
>> I know of the anonymous_sender field. Whilst that wipes & rewrites the
>> entire "From" field, I'd like a functionality where it retains the
>> sender's name but hides/replaces his email address. In a closed list
>> (which is what I am running), I'd live to lookup the sender's name in
>> the DB's subscriber_table and distribute the message to the list from
>> "Original Sender name <anonymous_sender email address>".
>>>
>
> This is roughly what the DMARC Protection does -- replaces the email
> address but keeps the name, in order to avoid DMARC issues.  The
> anonymous list options conceal the display name as well.
>
>  You should be able to configure DMARC protection on the list, with a
> dmarc_protection=all  (so that it matches everything).  Set
> dmarc_protection_phrase=display_name to preserve the display name, and
> dmarc_protection_other_email to be whatever you want the email address
> to show as (e.g. the list address).
>
> So, try this:
>
> dmarc_protection = all
> dmarc_protection_phrase = display_name
> dmarc_protection_other_email = anonymous_sender@my_server_domain

We recently had a list admin ask for this feature as well and I also
thought of the DMARC stuff as being close to what we want. But can you
set DMARC settings per list?

--
Matt Taggart
address@concealed



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