On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Jed Brown wrote: > Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes: > > > I know you deal with personal replies for petsc-maint stuff. But I set > > up my mailer to automatically set Reply-to:petsc-maint for all > > petsc-maint traffic [and modify it manually for the 1% usage case > > where thats not appropriate] > > If I only set Reply-to, then Gmail's "reply" does not reply correctly > This seems buggy, but it's common and they never fix bugs so it doesn't > help. > > Your headers set both: > > From: Satish Balay <petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov>
If from is a problem [and messesup anyones mailboxes] - I can change that. I felt it was best to deal with it as petsc-maint completely. > Reply-To: petsc-maint <petsc-maint at mcs.anl.gov> > > Several of us sending email as petsc-maint mixes up a lot of address > books and Gmail will not allow me to send mail that way because Matt > already claimed it and Gmail won't let two users send via the same > address. No such problem from pine [even though most of you think its an antique tool for current times] > So I would have to configure my outgoing smtp via mcs.anl.gov > for those messages. (Not a problem, except when on networks that I have > to proxy just to reach mcs.anl.gov.) Any smtp server should be fine. [but I guess if one doesn't work - all won't work]. I usually tunnel imap/smtp over ssh [eventhough is not required for smtp]. But you do go to places with blocked ssh - so that doesn't help. Satish > > > And wrt anonymous posts [without subscribing] - that was a receipie > > for spam. [however good the spam filters are] - so you'll have to > > account for that crap aswell. We get plenty of that on petsc-maint - > > but now with petsc-users mailing list - that spam gets distributed to > > all list subscribers. > > Yeah, it happens occasionally, but it's easier to filter with the > original headers intact. >
