From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Schmidt Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:38:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] feature: resending capability Message-Id: <51430823.6000705@yahoo.com.au> List-Id: References: <20130304142712.GA19707@eee.fritz.box> In-Reply-To: <20130304142712.GA19707@eee.fritz.box> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org 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. >