Re: [boost] [mailing list] No Reply-To in messages?

Subject: Re: [boost] [mailing list] No Reply-To in messages?
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-22 07:44:29

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Still, I've never had this problem with the previous infrastructure.
>> Maybe the email clients tend to not send the second email to the From
>> address when there is Reply-To. For example, the std-discussion and
>> std-proposals mailing lists use this scheme:
>>
>> From: real original sender address
>> To: mailing list address (e.g. "std-discussion_at_[hidden]"
>> <std-discussion_at_[hidden]>)
>> Reply-To: mailing list address (e.g. std-discussion_at_[hidden])
>>
>> No Cc headers.
>>
>> Can we use this scheme?
>
> That was the previous scheme which caused the DMARC failure because
> DMARC won't allow this ML to send email From: an address it does not own.
>
> Regarding your problems, I'm on Thunderbird and I'm finding no problem
> at all with the new ML config. Somebody obviously told Thunderbird about
> the new munging option for Mailman and it all "just works".

I'm not entirely sure but isn't there a difference between Sender and From?
I thought you could still have the original From header somehow.

> The real problem seems to me to be gmail having stupid handling.

How so?

-- 
Olaf