[Mailman-Users] Sender details and anonymous list

[Mark Sapiro]

Miles Waller wrote:
>
>I have set up an anonymous list - it's for announcements from a central 
>team to subscribers only, no discussions.
>
>It's all working great, exactly as required ... with one tiny problem.  
>The anonymous list correctly removes the details of who in the team sent 
>the message, and replaces it with the lists email address.  I have been 
>asked to set this so that it is a specific name, rather than the 
>address. I.e, in their mail clients, users will see:
>
>From: The company's biggest boss
>
>instead of
>
>From: announcements at example.com
>
>Having spent some time looking, I'm fairly sure this isn't possible in 
>mailman at the moment: the choices are either the mailing list, or the 
>original sender.  Can anyone confirm definitively?  I am using version 
>2.1.2.

You are correct. Those are the two choices unless you want to hack the
code in Cleanse.py

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