Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:54:02 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Sverre Svenningsen <ss.alert@online.no>, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Subject: Re: may I commit this small umodem patch ? Message-ID: <200807291454.02456.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86hca9pst7.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20080703140719.GA72315@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20080705213500.GC29380@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <86hca9pst7.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Monday 28 July 2008 06:06:28 pm Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes: > > Sverre Svenningsen <ss.alert@online.no> wrote: > > > Is current@freebsd.org just an alias to freebsd-current@freebsd.org ? > > Yes. There are some MUAs that have broken list-handling functionality > > and cannot be configured to recognize list aliases. > > Uh, no. No MUA can "recognize list aliases" as it would require > knowledge of what software the receiving MX runs and how it is > configured. > > No MUA needs to "recognize list aliases" either. As long as they reply > to the address listed in the original email's From: field (and > optionally to those listed in the Cc: field), they will be fine. > > The culprit here is HPS, who added freebsd-current@ to the Cc: list. Actually, kmail has "smarts" that will use the address from the 'List-Post' header as the 'To' address and then 'cc' all the other recipients, with the result that if an e-mail is originally sent to current@FreeBSD.org, when I do a reply-all, it ends up going "To" freebsd-current@, and cc'ing current@ as well as the original sender. My request to have a knob to turn this "feature" off has been denied by the kmail developers and I haven't spent the time to devise a local patch yet. Usually I delete the extra e-mail address, but sometimes I miss it. The "solution" the kmail folks think is appropriate is to explicitly configure a list of known aliases for each mailing list. -- John Baldwin
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