[Mailman-Users] How to get the senders email address in the custom footer?

[Mark Sapiro]

On 09/19/2015 04:58 AM, Arlen Raasch wrote:
> 
> We are using version 2.1.16 of Mailman.
> 
> The emails that currently are sent out via the listserv server have headers
> that include the original sender's email address as the "From:" address.
> Yahoo's and Aol's DMARC policy causes these to bounce as our server is not
> one they recognize.
> 
> I have seen many posts regarding this problem, but no actual solutions that
> told me what I should do.


Have you seen the FAQ article at <http://wiki.list.org/x/17891458>.


> This is not my area of expertise, just something that dropped in my lap.
> 
> A strategy that makes some sense to me is to take ownership of the emails
> by identifying the listserv as the From and Reply-To addresses, but
> including a custom footer in the email that exposes the actual sender's
> email address.


Mailman has various mitigation strategies described in the above
referenced FAQ article. With Mailman 2.1.16, you are limited to munging
the From: header on all list posts, not just those From: domains that
publish DMARC reject and optionally quarantine policies.

2.1.18 adds this latter ability and removes the requirement to add

ALLOW_FROM_IS_LIST = Yes

to mm_cfg.py to enable the from_is_list setting. 2.1.19 has a few minor
bug fixes to the features.


...
> I set the annonomous_list setting to yes under general options, and sent a
> test email.  The email went out fine, but nothing in the default email
> footer allowed others to know who actually sent the email out.


Correct. While anonymous_list = Yes will avoid DMARC issues, that's not
what it is designed for.


> I attempted to change the default non-digest footer to include the sender's
> address, but did not succeed.  It appears that this info is regarding the
> recipient,not the sender's info.


Correct again. There are no footer replacement variables relating to the
sender.


...
> So, the question is how to get the sender's email address in the footer.


You would need to modify the source code, but if you have the ability to
do that, a much better solution is to upgrade to the current 2.1.20
release <https://launchpad.net/mailman/+download> or even the head of
the development branch at
<https://code.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.1> and use the
dmarc_moderation_action settings for this.

Note that Mailman's strategy is to put the original From: in Reply-To:
or in some cases in 2.1.19+ in Cc: to both expose the address and make
'reply' and 'reply all' work as closely as possible to the non-munged case.

Also note that the development branch is actually quite solid for
production use. It is what we are using for all the python.org lists.

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