Re: [Tools-discuss] Request about the draft-xxx at tools.ietf.org mail lists

[Henrik Levkowetz <henrik at levkowetz.com>]

Hi Cullen,

On 2008-03-22 17:29 Cullen Jennings said the following:
> I've been having problems where an author of a draft. say foo at bar.com,  
> is not reading emails sent to draft-xxx email address. The issues  
> seems to be that they are filtering in a way that expects foo at bar.com  
> to be in the To or CC header. They point out that they did not know  
> that needed to set up filters for every draft they write and don't  
> want to do that.

Mmm.

> I was wondering if we could do something like instead of setting the  
> To line to draft-xxx, if we could set it to the list of authors and  
> perhaps set the List-ID header to draft-xxx. I don't claim to have any  
> idea of what email headers should be used in any given situation so I  
> have no idea if this would make matters better or worse. But I think  
> you see the problem I am getting at and perhaps someone knows if there  
> is good way of resolving this.

Yup, I see the problem.  I'm not sure how to address it best, though.

Currently the draft-xxx email addresses are simple aliases, which are
handled easily and efficiently by exim.  Something to solve this seems
to require a more advanced and custom setup, filtering these emails
through formail or something like that to replace the To: draft-xxxx
address with the individual resolved addresses.  I'll have a look at
it, but don't know straight off how to convince exim to do that.


	Henrik

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