[antlr-interest] mailman apparently doesn't catch all vacation responses...

[Terence Parr]

On Dec 21, 2004, at 11:43 AM, John D. Mitchell wrote:

>>>>>> "Terence" == Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> writes:
>> ugh.  Ok, so anybody know mailman really well?  I had to set the 
>> reply-to
>> field to be the sender not the list in order to avoid mail loops.
>
> Yea, that's how the mailing list should be set up.

Yahoo's was sent to reply-to the list though, which is more convenient.

>> The big question is, how does yahoo make this work?  They couldn't do
>> anything else right ;) (i.e., search, etc...).
>
> They use a tweaked version of ezmlm. ezmlm uses VERP which is to say 
> that
> it generates a unique From address for each recipient and so can deal 
> with
> all sorts of things in a graceful, non-obtrusive manner.
>
> Supposedly there's support for VERP in mailman.  I presume RTFM.

Ah!  It does have it.  If we turn this on, perhaps we can reply-to list.

Arnar, know anything about this?

>> I hate having to retype antlr-interest at antlr.org each time when I
>> reply. :( I also hate getting the vacation replies ;) Ok, that's it.  
>> No
>> more vacation for anybody! ;) <snicker> <snort>
>
> You can start by using the "followup to" command in your mail client.
>
> For a real solution rather than just breaking different things, use a 
> mail
> client software which support the "mail-followup-to:" header.

I'll see if mac os x supports this.

Ter
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