On 15/04/17 10:03 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 14/04/17 11:53 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Thankfully Carlos is looking for a defense against himself.
OBTW, John, I subscribe to the list to there is no need to send a duplicate to me as well :-)
----- Actually, Anton, in this situation, I'll agree that John isn't following suggested mail protocol, since you have a 'Reply-To: opensuse@opensuse.org' in your email headers.
Yes, it was you who suggested I do that to address this very issue!
However, posting to other lists with that reply-to string in your headers is, *ahem*, bad form! (having been bitten by that more than once).
This account is *ONLY openSUSE.
Can't you have a mail-post-compose/ pre-delivery script that looks at the "To" header, and if it is to a list, then add an appropriate reply-to field?).
If I'm rely to a message on this this list at all, which is a result of pressing wither the "reply-to" or "reply-to-list" in Thunderbird while reading a message on this list, then it *IS* a list. This account is UNIQUE to openSUSE list. So it is only adding the 'Reply-To: opensuse@opensuse.org' for replies to this list. That is set up for the account in the Thunderbird config on a per account basis for this and only this account. So it does what you suggest without the need for an external script.
If you really need a script to do it, I can likely whip up one in perl in short order, though you'd have to "install" it into your outgoing email chain...
That's a very kind offer. I'm a lot more than 20 years from being proficient in Perl :-( However I'm not aware of how I possibly _could_ install it in the chain with Thunderbird. This, like all my accounts, reads directly from my ISP via Thunderbird's IMAP mechanism at that unique mailbox and writes directly to the corresponding SMTP for that account. So the "chain", as far as I can see in internal to Thunderbird. On the occasions that I use my phone or tablet to handle email I use K-9 or K-@ and there is a similar unique per account set-up. I note that John uses his phone and K-9. Perhaps this is a shortcoming of K-9, I don't know. Perhaps he's being optimistic and using a 'reply-all' in the absence of a 'reply-to-list'. I'll have to go look-see. I'm aware that some people read their email via a spam filter proxy. My ISP runs a spam processor - I think it is SpamAssassin from the way the GUI lets me configure settings - and it does an excellent job. I suspect that there might be a SMTP proxy as well. That's nice, but why should I pay for that just to insert a "reply-to" header on one of the MANY accounts that I use? Not least of all when Thunderbird is doing it anyway. It may be that there's a plug-in for Thunderbird that let's you hook in to the outgoing SMTP chain. My google-fu is OK but that skill doesn't seem to work well with Mozilla's internal search arrangement. I haven't seen one and I suspect it wouldn't be that perl-friendly. I'm aware that I *could* run a SMTP proxy such as Postfix on my own machine and have that set up as the mail proxy for Thunderbird for this one account. I seems a lot of effort though. It is also not a solution for my phone/tablet. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org