On Tue, Jul 31, 2007, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>On 2007-07-30 20:12:48 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> FWIW: I've not had any success subscribing to the OpenOffice.org
>> mailing lists as they insist on using the address of one of our
>> internal machines, ignoring my From: and Reply-To: headers.
>
>Yes, this is a well-known problem with the broken mailing-list
>manager ezmlm (it makes a confusion between the "From:" header
>and the envelope FROM address). You can try to set up your mail
>reader (if it provides such an option) so that it forces the
>FROM address to be the same as the "From:" header. But some
>smarthosts or transparent proxies may set the FROM address back
>to your internal address.
Given that the From<space> header is added by the final MTA delivering the
message, I don't see how that can work, but then I've never used ezmlm,
only Mailman and Majordomo before that.
I almost always use tagged addresses, specific to particular mailing list,
with mutt inserting the appropriate From: and Reply-To: headers based on
the recipient address. Even so, ezmlm seems to see the address of the
internal machine on a private LAN, not either of these.
Bill
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