On 10-Mar-2011, at 12:42, Chris Murphy wrote: > > If the list is non-posting, List-Post is to be set to No.
List-Post: no means that you *CANNOT* post to the list. It is intended for distribution only lists. FTR, the omni list is not in anyway unique in this behavior. I have several lists in which my procmail recipes have to set an explicit Reply-To. I have a general recipe that catches most lists (including the omni lists): :0 * ^List-Post: <mailto:\/[-A-Z0-9_+]+@[-A-Z0-9_+.]+ { LOG = "Reply-to: $MATCH$NL " :0fw | formail -i"Reply-To: $MATCH" \ -i"X-Replyto-Changed: True" } so they behave as I want them to. There are a few lists that I have to manage individually. This is not the ideal solution, but since I would not honor a reply-to that was off-list anyway, for my purposes it works just as I want. Now, I filed a bug against Mail.app years ago asking that they add a "Reply to List" based on the presence and content of the List-Post header. My request was closed as a duplicate and Apple has still chosen not to implement this. Some email clients do, however. It is not part of any RFC that replies to messages be sent based on this header, however. http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html > When the "Reply-To:" field is present, it indicates the mailbox(es) to which > the author of the message suggests that replies be sent. > > Your list software is not "the author of the message", so it must not set or > in any way meddle with the Reply-To header field. That field exists for the > author and the author alone. If your list munges it, you are violating the > standard. This is interpretation is not cut and dried, by any means, and RFC2822 has very little to say about mailing lists in general. There are very few mail clients that treat the List-Post header with any weight at all, and until most of them do, this is simply a large windmill against a very small tilt. (And by most of them I don't mean a numeric count of clients, but a mass count of the mailers used by most people). -- *** AgentSmith sets mode: +m _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
