Mark - thanks very much for your response and advice. >>Make the "another-list" list anonymous. Then the From: address in the message it sends back to the tracking system will be the address of the list which can be a registered user in the tracking system. The original submitter is still available in the From: header of the attached message.
>>Alternatively, if you can make the tracking system validate on envelope sender, you only need to register [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a user in the tracking system. Note that if you can do this, you might also be able to have the rejected-as-unknown mail go directly back to the tracking system depending on what the envelope sender of the rejected-as-unknown mail is. It's now working, and here is what I did to get this working with TrackStudio (the tracking system I use)- * created a single list [prereg] with a single member [EMAIL PROTECTED], and set the list to anonymous * set the tracking system "reject" mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * created a user in the tracking system with email address [EMAIL PROTECTED], and granted it post permissions on a particular folder - folder "PREREG" * associated an email import rule on the PREREG folder - "import mail with subject that contains "[prereg]" " Now when a mail comes in to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it is sent to the tracking system, which looks at it to see if it can be processed. If it cannot, the system rejects it sending it to the mailman list. The mainman list reformats the subject line and From: address, making it look like the mail is coming in from the list itself, and, resends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the tracking system receives the second time, it now recognizes the From address as being from a known user, and sees that the mail's subject matches a string in one of the import rules, and thereby imports to the correct folder. Now I have another potential problem that I would like to bounce off the list. If an unknown user sends an email in, and includes no information in the body of the text such as an informative signature or other text indicating who they are, since the From: gets overwritten, we have a potential situation where we cannot tell who sent the mail in. The tracking system is not an email client per se, and does not allow you to view headers. Therefore I would like to grab the initial From: address (say, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and put it on the subject line, or, in the body. How can I accomplish that with Mailman? Google and RTF FAQ etc have given some info about VERP, but I would like to get some advice before embarking on a wild goose chase. Also, for some reason the tracking system does not do very well with importing footers, where I know you can place personalized info. Can I add the original From: to the bottom of the body? Can someone kindly point me in the right direction? TIA!! Best Regards, Rick Cogley Tokyo, Japan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
