This is an attempt to alleviate the pain that some users (and list admins) appear to experience with the conflation of From: and Sender: headers in the displayed From field of the web GUI of some versions of some Microsoft MUAs. If that is your problem, this hack might help.
With well behaved MTAs that send bounce messages back to the envelope sender this change should be safe but if it blows up in your face because a badly behaved MTA sends a bounce back to the Sender header, which is now the primary list address, and hence to the list itself, it is on your head; you have been warned.
That said, the change is one-line-simple and easy to reverse if things start to go pear shaped.
On 11 May 2004, at 16:17, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 4:54 PM +0200 2004/05/11, cedric gross wrote:
Is there a way to change the sender of mail (i.e. mailman-user-bounce) with
something more humain like : The Mailman User list
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ?
You can go throughout the Mailman code and change listname-bounces to whatever you want, but this is not recommended.
Bounces will actually come back to this address, so whatever you do, you have to be able to distinguish between bounces and original submissions. But if you had a violent opposition to the string "-bounces" appearing anywhere, you could change this to be "-fred" or whatever else you may want.
Or must I do it by canonical rewriting ?
That would be an extremely bad idea. You would be destroying vital information encoded in the envelope sender address, which could not be recovered once a bounce occurred.
See Mailman FAQ 2.2 at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.002.htp> and FAW 2.3 at <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py? req=show&file=faq02.003.htp>.
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