[TriLUG] From field munging

William Sutton via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Tue Feb 21 11:17:44 EST 2017


On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Kevin Otte via TriLUG wrote:

> poster's message as MIME message/rfc822. This does require opening the
> nested message to reply to the right place. I'm not sure how desirable
> this will be from a UX standpoint.

How would this affect those of us who use CLI clients (like alpine or 
mutt)?

> -- Kevin
>
> On 02/20/2017 03:15 PM, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Aaron Schrab sure called it right in the following post:
>> 
>> http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20150209/073359.html
>> 
>> A few minutes ago I accidentally sent a private reply to the whole
>> list. I'm very sorry. 
>> 
>> I spoze I could have been extra careful, but on almost all my other
>> mailing lists, clicking "reply to sender" actually replies to sender,
>> like it's supposed to do. TriLUG munges the sender field, so unless
>> extreme care is used, private replies will go to the whole list.
>> 
>> If From Field Munging is the only way to implement dmarc, I'd suggest
>> not implementing dmarc, and if people with Yahoo and AOL accounts can't
>> post, oh-well. I mean, what serious Internet person doesn't have an
>> account with someone other than Yahoo or AOL?
>> 
>> I'm sorry to have sent a private reply to the whole list, and will try
>> my best to remember that when responding to TriLUG posts, my email
>> system works differently.
>> 
>> SteveT
>> 
>> Steve Litt 
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>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
>> 
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