[Mailman-Users] Avoiding mangling in Mailman 3?

Brian Carpenter brian_carpenter at emwd.com
Sat Dec 7 06:58:49 EST 2019


Hi Allan,

I have successfully installed Mailman 3 on 4 servers now. Please contact me off list if you are interested in my installation service.

Thanks,
Brian Carpenter 

> On Dec 7, 2019, at 12:17 AM, Allan Hansen <hansen at rc.org> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> One of my main gripes is the From: mangling that we had to use to allow AOL and Yahoo subscribers to send messages without messing everyone else up. I have now been informed that Mailman 3 does not solve this problem, but I’d like to move to Mailman 3 anyway. So what to do?
> 
> How about this:
> 
> 1. Replace the From: address with a no-reply address on the list server. Don’t add the sender’s address in quotes.
> 2. Keep the ‘Reply-To:’ address as the sender’s address (that’s what I have it set to now - I don’t want people to reply to the lists).
> 3. Put HTML mailto: links for ‘Reply to Sender’ and Reply to List’ at the bottom of the message.
> 
> 
> My other solution:
> 
> Require subscribers from AOL/Yahoo and whichever other service with the same misguided policy to get another email address for the lists.
> 
> 
> Is there anyone on this who will be willing to help installing Mailman 3 for me on a Linux system. I have tried and I have had two experts try as well, but we have all run into difficulty. I’ll pay, of course.
> 
> Yours,
> 
>    Allan Hansen
> 
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