[Cialug] Mailing List Setup

[Nathan C. Smith]

FYI

Saw a message today about a directory traversal vulnerability in mailman2

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nicolai
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 2:06 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mailing List Setup

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 05:28:07AM -0600, Todd Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org> wrote:
> > So for example on this list, you'd get a message with a header like
> > this:
> >
> >  From: cialug at cialug.org
> >  To: cialug at cialug.org
> >  Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 05:43:35 -0600
> >  Subject: open source stuff
> >  Reply-To: Todd Walton <todd at example.org>
> 
> That's what I'm going for.  The list I've setup should be primarily 
> for making announcements, and so if people just hit reply I want the 
> reply to go to the author of the email they're responding to.

If you want replies to go to the sender, then all you have to do is ... nothing :-)

This is a non-problem.  There is nothing broken and nothing for you to fix.

Leaving Reply-To alone should be the default behavior, even for gnu mailman.  Therefore, replies should go back to the original sender without having to mangle the From line and strip and add a Reply-To.
There is nothing to do, less code to run.

Again: setting Reply-To in mlm software is not normal.  For what you want to do, you can let email work as intended.

Nicolai
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