[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Feedback needed: nodupes patch and reply-to munging per user

[Marc MERLIN]

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:51:02PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:41:27PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> > Ben Gertzfield  wrote a patch  which Barry recently included  in mailman-cvs
> > which allows you to not receive the list  copy of a message in you were Cced
> > in the headers (nodupes patch).
> > The idea is  to reproduce the (imo sole useful)  feature of reply-to munging
> > where people don't get two copies of replies to posts.
> 
> You know, perhaps it's me, but won't that mean that the headers on the
> messages that *cc'd* you will be *different* than the ones that didn't?

Yes. The message you were Cced on will be a direct mail and won't contain
the list headers.
Your choices are:
1) you don't have to enable nodupes and you can get both mails
2) you can filter the mail on 
   TOmailman-devel / ~C mailman-devel
     procmail             muttrc
   so that the Cc ends up in your list folder and not your personal folder.

> > After  porting his  patch to  mailman-cvs, I've  written another  patch that
> > extends this functionality by making reply-to munging a per user option.
> 
> So, here, do you mean "the adding of a reply-to mung to the list", or
> do you mean "stripping any possible reply-to added by the writer"?
 
Neither. My patch is aimed at replacing listwide reply-to munging by letting
each user add a reply-to to the copies of the list posts they receive.
(so by default list posts don't contain a reply-to, but each user can decice
to have a reply-to added before they receive their list copies)
 
> I've read it twice now, and I still can't decide which I think you mean
> -- except that the list context was the latter.  I'm on Rosenthal's
> side concerning the former...

Then with both agree on that ;-)
(the two patches are supposed to help keeping your lists free of list-wide
munging)

Also, my patch lets you set a policy decision server-wide or list-wide to
not allow users to set reply-to munging for their own list copies

Marc
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