Oh okay. I see. I'll look into it.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net>
wrote:

> So in that case, still have the SQLite mail server reject messages to the
> old list rather than forwarding them, and let the problematic MUAs deal
> with it. The key thing is that by not forwarding but rejecting, the mail
> server isn't sending out 2 copies of messages directly, and the rejecting
> is reminding people to pay attention until the issue as a consequence goes
> away.  Thus any explicit Reply-To headers can be left unmunged by the list
> server. -- Darren Duncan
>
>
> On 2015-03-02 7:10 PM, Mike Owens wrote:
>
>> The problem is that this is the very bone of contention in the reply-to
>> religious war. Is it not? I may be wrong, but I thought this is the very
>> setting that people get so defensive about changing. As we have it now,
>> people have a suitable default pointing back to the (correct) list but
>> also
>> the freedom to change the reply-to header should they want to. If we strip
>> the reply-to header in order to correct for the problematic MUA's, then
>> the
>> latter freedom is lost. And if I remember correctly, some people get very
>> angry about this.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 2015-03-02 6:14 PM, Mike Owens wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 5:27 PM, R.Smith <rsmith at rsweb.co.za> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Ah, thank you, all makes sense now. If you change the first option to
>>>>> YES
>>>>> then nobody else's quirky reply-to headers will get into the list, and
>>>>> the
>>>>> second option remains as is (it should be setting the standard
>>>>> @mailinglists reply-to field) - this should solve the duplication
>>>>> issue,
>>>>> but if it is disagreeable to anyone, more consideration is needed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I almost don't want to even speak of this for fear that this issue will
>>>> raise it's ugly head again. Per the Mailmain documentation (
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-admin/node11.html):
>>>>
>>>> Beware! Reply-To: munging is considered a religious issue and the
>>>> policies
>>>>
>>>>  you set here can ignite some of the most heated off-topic flame wars on
>>>>> your mailing lists. We'll try to stay as agnostic as possible, but our
>>>>> biases may still peak through.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  That's as much as I'll say about that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well it doesn't have to be complete munging, rather just enough munging
>>> to
>>> remove references to the old mailing list name. -- Darren Duncan
>>>
>>
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