(following up a private discussion on having mailman allow users to decide
if they want reply-to munging or not, not the list master)
> Another thought is to not do the munging in CookHeaders.py, but to
> defer it to later in the delivery process. If you could wedge it into
> SMTPDirect.py it might not be too hard, but I'd have to think about it
> more.
(feel free to extract this part of the mail and answer on mailman-devel if
you wish)
Ok, so I'm looking at ToOutgoing.py
I need to
- find out where msg is defined (pointer welcome)
- add a 'munge-users' field
- enqueue the message once as-is
- set munge in msg, modify msgdata to add reply-to, and enqueue the message
a 2nd time
While it would be better to have a tri-state reply-to setting per user:
as defined by the list / leave intact (empty or set by posting user) / set
that would be hard because doing #2 is not easy since the listwide munging
will happen before the actual explosion and delivery to the users.
So, I think we can have:
If reply-to munging is enabled on that list, ignore user settings (I'd
really like to give them the option to disagree with the list owner, but I
have to set some bounds, otherwise it's going to be too much work)
If munging is disabled (which ideally could be done on a site wide basis),
then users get to chose if they want to enable it (and the default is
obviously disabled when the user setting is undefined)
As an optimization, ToOutgoing.py would scan the user list and only queue
the message once if no list member opted for munging or if munging is
already done on a list-wide basis.
Then, the outgoing qrunner when it picks the messages, would check if
munge-users is set for that specific message, and only send the message to
the users whose munging setting matches the value.
I don't know if and when I'll be able to do that (depends on how my time
gets assigned), but I thought I would run it by you guys to see if I missed
anything and if there was a bored hacker who knew the mailman code better
than me :-)
(turns out, while I think this feature would be a great thing, I don't yet
know whether it will solve my particular problem or not)
Marc
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