[Mailman-Developers] Correcting the display name in the recipient address

Simon Hanna simon.hanna at serve-me.info
Sat Mar 26 06:01:43 EDT 2016


Am 25. März 2016 18:16:09 MEZ, schrieb Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>:
>On 03/25/2016 06:06 AM, Aditya Divekar wrote:
>>>
>> My knowledge of anonymous mailing lists is a bit less. But from what
>I
>> understand, the address for the mailbox would not have a display name
>for
>> anonymity purposes whereas the user can have a display name,
>importing
>> which may cause anonymity concerns.
>
>
>The purpose of an anonymous list is to hide the identity of the author
>of a post. There is not a need on an anonymous list to hide the
>membership roster. There should be the normal controls on the
>visibility
>of the roster, i.e. list owners only, owners and members only or public
>(I'm not sure how this is handled in Postorius, I'm not up to speed
>there), but that is not the concern.
>
Just for reference: postorius currently only allowed moderators to vies the members of the list. 
>The concern is that a post as archived and delivered to list members
>should have nothing in it's headers (including things like From:,
>Received:, Message-ID, etc.) that identify the poster or the poster's
>domain. This is a function of the core. Postorius is not involved nor
>are the archivers as the post has been anonymized before it gets to an
>archiver.
I don't know that much about email, but shouldn't each message contain a message ID?


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