Re: [mlmmj] feature: resending capability

[Ben Schmidt <mail_ben_schmidt@yahoo.com.au>]

I don't think I fully understand the problem.

Wouldn't a traditional mailing list with a Reply-To header be sufficient for your 
needs? Those on the mailing list would know to use the Reply-All button to reply 
to both the list and the external sender, and the external sender could just use 
Reply to reply to the list.

Is there something I am missing?

Ben.



On 5/03/13 1:27 AM, Sebastian Lipp wrote:
> Hey there
>
> I'm running several mailing lists with mlmmj and absolutely satisfied
> with this great piece of software. But there is one capability that
> would make me love mlmmj even more.
>
> Theres a project where several people are involved. At the moment I'm
> the only one receiving it's mail. I'd like to have all mails forwarded
> to the project's mailing list to rise transparency and distribute the
> burden of dealing with mail to everyone involved. The problem with just
> forwarding and then cc-ing replies to outside people is that their
> replies won't be directed to the list but to the sender of the original
> reply.
>
> I can think of a solution. If mlmmj parsed the mail's body and added
> $external_recipient to the list of recipients if the first non-empty
> body line was
>
> 	X-RESEND-TO: $external_recipient
>
> I'd be satisfied. Unfortunately my understanding of C is far from beeing
> good enough to make such a change to mlmmj's code, though I can imagine
> that this would just add a few lines of code while introducing a great
> new use case by empowering mlmmj to act as a gateway to contact a whole
> group transparently.
>
> Is my assumption about the effort needed to introduce this feature right
> and is anybody willing to invest some minutes on this?
>
> As an alternative: Is there any way to hook a filter (script) between
> the MTA and mlmmj that makes a copy of the mail and adds a Reply-To:
> header or can you imagine any other solution for this that does not
> involve setting up another mailing list software? Perhaps by telling my
> MTA (postfix) to add the respective header line to any mail with a
> certain string in the To: field.
>