Timothy Murphy wrote:
I've recently set up a couple of distribution lists using KMail/KAddressBook. This works quite well; but I wondered if there is any way of making the To line give the name of the list rather than the people on the list, as for example Mailman does?
how what appears in 'To:' depends on how ones email address book is set up.
the 'To:' in this reply will appear to me as 'example mail list' because my address book is configured to *display* 'example mail list' for email address of 'geleem@bellsouth.net'.
for it to appear this way in a recipient's email, they would have to have a similar entry in their address book.
or so it works with thunderbird.
hth.
I suspect you're replying to this on the wrong list (Tim sent an identical message to the Fedora-KDE list but not AFAIK to this one). Better check your mail settings.
poc
PS I just read another reply from you on this list to a message that hasn't reached the list, Subject "VERY IMPORTANT". Perhaps the original simply hasn't arrived yet but you might want to check.
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I suspect you're replying to this on the wrong list
thank you. my bad. will correct.
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I've recently set up a couple of distribution lists using KMail/KAddressBook. This works quite well; but I wondered if there is any way of making the To line give the name of the list rather than the people on the list, as for example Mailman does?
Write it to the list address, & CC or BCC it to the list of addresses?
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 15:25:26 +0930, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I've recently set up a couple of distribution lists using KMail/KAddressBook. This works quite well; but I wondered if there is any way of making the To line give the name of the list rather than the people on the list, as for example Mailman does?
Write it to the list address, & CC or BCC it to the list of addresses?
A cute trick is to use an empty list for the To header and bcc the recipients. However that won't allow replies to the recipients, just to you.
For example:
To: My List:;
Tim:
Write it to the list address, & CC or BCC it to the list of addresses?
Bruno Wolff III:
A cute trick is to use an empty list for the To header and bcc the recipients.
That doesn't always work, though it really should. I have seen some mail servers that refuse mail without a valid TO address. Probably an ISP doing some ill-considered anti-spam technique.
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 15:20 +0930, Tim wrote:
Tim:
Write it to the list address, & CC or BCC it to the list of addresses?
Bruno Wolff III:
A cute trick is to use an empty list for the To header and bcc the recipients.
That doesn't always work, though it really should. I have seen some mail servers that refuse mail without a valid TO address. Probably an ISP doing some ill-considered anti-spam technique.
I've seen people put their own address in the To: field. I've also seen fake addresses there (e.g. aaaa@aaaa) but that might be blocked by the ISP of course.
poc
On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 09:29 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I've seen people put their own address in the To: field. I've also seen fake addresses there (e.g. aaaa@aaaa) but that might be blocked by the ISP of course.
I've done that before, but it confuses the less technically savvy recipients, as to why *they're* receiving a message addressed to someone else. The simplest solution for that sort of thing, that makes sense to most other people on the internet, is to address it to a list address that they'll recognise.
e.g. If you had a list about reading books, the list might have an address like:
"members of the book club" the-book-club@example.com
And you'd send out your mail to your members, addressed TO the list, with the members CC'd, or BCC'd (BCCing is better if you want membership anonymity, and minimising the chance of spammers harvesting addresses from compromised machines, or from forwarded mail).
It also gives the slightly clueful, but not quite enough, a simple way to whitelist messages, if they use a simple sort of filtering.
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