Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!lll-winken!fnnews!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: need help with mailing list From: line Message-ID: <1991Jun11.150500.11977@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 15:05:00 GMT References: <.676650084@braille.uwo.ca> Distribution: comp Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 31 In article <.676650084@braille.uwo.ca> kirk@braille.uwo.ca (Kirk Reiser) writes: > >I have been trying to set up a mailing list for general discussions of >programming problems to the handicapped community. My problem is the mailing >list is distributed if the individual mails to the list specifically, but >if the individual replies to the received mail, it is just mailed back to >the original sender. I believe the problem is that sendmail is not putting >a From mailing-list line on the mail. Could someone tell me what I am doing Sendmail is not supposed to put 'From mailing list'. If you want this, you need to have the mailing list address send the message to a program mailer which changes the headers as you require them and remails the message to the distribution list. Be prepared for some flames, as many people think you should not do what you are trying to do. With your present setup, someone can reply to just the sender, or to the sender and mailing list, depending perhaps on whether they use 'Reply' or 'reply' (this depends on the mail software used to generate the reply). And that would seem to provide adequate choice. Rather than changing the 'From:' header, you might try adding a 'Reply-To:' mailing list (if no Reply-To: is already present), or appending ", mailinglist" to the end of an existing 'Reply-To:'. That way you at least retain the author's name on the 'From:'. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940