From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Goirand Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:53:05 +0000 Subject: Re: Having individual receiver in To: field Message-Id: <46F00271.8050805@goirand.fr> List-Id: References: <1557ec740709171048y2b7c2e08g5c9fbfe40196087a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1557ec740709171048y2b7c2e08g5c9fbfe40196087a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org Raymond den Ouden wrote: > Christian Laursen wrote: >> Neale Pickett writes: >>> Neale Pickett writes: >>>> That's not really how mail lists are supposed to work. I don't think >>>> mlmmj has a way to set this up. Why do you want such a thing? >>>> >>> Holy cow, I stand corrected, the "addtohdr" tunable does this. >>> >>> Why would anybody want such a thing? >>> >> >> It makes sense for newsletters and announce lists and that sort of >> thing. >> > And not to forget. Hotmail tend to drop mails which does not have the > receiver in one of the address headers in the spam box. > The sportclub I manage a few lists for had the problem that specifically > hotmail users did not receive the mailinglist mails. > > With using the addtohdr I managed to work around this annoying hotmail > "bug". > > As a matter of fact, that was the main reason for me to move to mlmmj We do VPS hosting. We also use this brilliant function to send email to a list of users when there's a problem on one of our server. We don't really want people to read "whateverusers@example.com", as it's not meant to be used as a list. We also set the list as closed, and moderated, so the people we send mail to can't send to the list. This makes me think that I would have like a way that only certain person (like the list owners or the moderators) could send to the moderated list without the hassle of having to approve the messages. On a busy mail server it can take some time until we receive the moderation message. I don't really know how this could be implemented, but what I thought about would be something like a password in the subject that would be removed, for example (this is not very nice, but that's the only thing I can think of). I know that the From: checking is not enough as this could be faked. Does anybody has a better idea for that one? Thomas Goirand, GPLHost CEO