Thanks guys for having enough patience with me. It helped me a lot. Alan
Mark Sapiro wrote: > alan wrote: > >> First, what is MUA? (Sorry, but I'm quite new in using mailing lists.) >> > > > Brad has answered this one. > > > >> Second, the reason I'm bothering you all with this is to avoid sending big >> attachments back to the user and save him the trouble of seing mail again, >> as you said. But I have no trouble sending him the indication of reposting. >> > > > OK. That seems like a good reason. > > > >> Now, since I'm a newbee, can you please explain this to me in more simpla >> way. >> This is What I understood: >> asumming user is "user1" and list is "123" >> To: 123; >> Cc:user1; >> > > > Yes, that's what I meant. > > > >> I am using Thunderbird (or OE sometimes) as a mail client to post to the >> list. >> >> I don't understand this part of your answer: >> >> >>> instead of posting from >>> your MUA which will send the Cc:, post the message directly with >>> sendmail or equivalent, sending the envelope to the list only. >>> > > > This is the tricky part. Of course, if you just sent the message > addressed as above, 'user1' would receive the direct Cc:, thus > defeating the attempt to spare the user from receiving it again. > > This may be more trouble than it's worth, but what you'd need to do in > Tbird is compose/forward/whatever the entire post, addressed as above, > but instead of sending it, save it as a draft (you can't save it > directly as a file because that only saves the 'body'). Then open the > draft and save that as a file. > > Now you have a file containing the raw message with headers including > the Cc: user1. Now you need to deliver that message to a mail server > with a recipient of *only* the list. Then it will be sent to the list > only, and Mailman will see the Cc: user1 and not send it to user1 > assuming user1 has 'avoid dups' set in her options. > > This last step is not easy in a MS Windows environment. If you have a > mail client that supports a 'resend' or 'redirect' operation, you > could open the message with that client and 'resend' it to the list, > but I don't think either MSOE or Tbird will do this. > > The following is a minimal python script that can do this. > > import sys > import smtplib > SMTPHOST = 'mail.example.com' > SMTPPORT = 25 > SMTP_USERNAME = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > SMTP_PASSWORD = 'yourpw' > fp = open(sys.argv[1]) > msg = fp.read() > fp.close() > rcpts = [sys.argv[2]] > env = SMTP_USERNAME > x = smtplib.SMTP() > x.connect(SMTPHOST,SMTPPORT) > x.login(SMTP_USERNAME, SMTP_PASSWORD) > x.sendmail(env,rcpts,msg) > x.quit() > > To use the above, you first have to install python > <http://www.python.org/> on your Windows computer. Then save the above > script in the file 'sendmail.py'. Then in a command window, give the > command > > python path\to\sendmail.py path\to\saved\message [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This will send the saved message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only, even though > the saved message contains a Cc: user1 header. > > Certain obvious things need to be changed in the above script. Also, > this will only work with an SMTP server that uses user/password > authorization. > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
