[Mailman-Users] Trouble with "Reply-to:"

[Mark Sapiro]

On 06/15/2017 04:36 AM, Frank Elsner wrote:
> 
> running mailman-2.1.12-26.el6.x86_64 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.9
> we have trouble with the "Reply-To:" header settings.
> 
> The list config contains 
> 
> first_strip_reply_to = 1
> reply_goes_to_list = 2
> reply_to_address = 'redacted at mailbox.tu-berlin.de'
> 
> but mails going though the list have no "Reply-To:" line in header.


Please see <https://wiki.list.org/x/12812344>. Then contact RedHat about
what appears to be a bug in their mailman-2.1.12-26.el6.x86_64 package.


> What might be the cause? What overlooked? Where to look?


I suppose it's possible that Mailman is adding the Reply-To: and the
outgoing MTA is removing it, but in any of our Mailman 2.1 distributions
since 2.1.1 the above settings will result in

Reply-To: redacted at mailbox.tu-berlin.de

being added to the outgoing message.

You could look at your Mailman/Handlers/CookHeaders.py in the section
that begins with the comment

    # Reply-To: munging. ...

to see it it looks correct. In particular, this

        # List admin wants an explicit Reply-To: added
        if mlist.reply_goes_to_list == 2:
            add(parseaddr(mlist.reply_to_address))

is what puts reply_to_address in the Reply-To: header in the outgoing
message.

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