Re: [tsc-devel] Forum <-> mailinglist gateway

Quintus | Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:26:29 UTC

> I figured you'd be able to just take the name given from the From: field in
> the sender and place it in the outgoing mail, such as:
>
> Receiving message contains:
>   From: Jack <…k@e…>
>   To: …l@l…
> Sending message contains:
>   From: Jack <…l@l…>
>   To: you

That would be a possibility I guess. Will look into that, and thank you
for the suggestion!

> And, in the case that …k@e… is not registered in the forum,
> expand it to:
>
>   From: Jack (Guest) <…l@.…>

Something like that is already done. I don’t know why I was so focused
on the From: email header for specifying the original sender.

Vale,
Quintus

> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Quintus <…s@q…> wrote:
>
>> Hm, it appears multipart messages don’t work as expected yet. Will look
>> into that.
>>
>> > I notice that the automailer doesn't specify who sent a given message.
>> Will
>> > this be changed soon?
>>
>> That’s hardly possible, because in order to post to the mailinglist, the
>> email address has to be subscribed to the mailinglist. The address
>> …r@f… _is_ subscribed to the mailinglist
>> and hence can post to it. Problems arise when someone who is registered
>> on the forum, but not subscribed to the mailinglist, posts into the
>> gateway forum. Resolving this would require to forcibly subscribe these
>> persons to the mailinglist, maybe even the no-mail version where you
>> don’t receive any mail, but somehow it doesn’t feel correct to subscribe
>> people behind their back to some ML.
>>
>> The other way round, people subscribed to the ML who do not have a forum
>> account, simply show up as the “Guest” user in the forum, but as the
>> email address is prepended to the post, this should not be a problem.
>>
>> Vale,
>> Quintus
>>
>> Luiji Maryo <…i@u…> writes:
>>
>> > I notice that the automailer doesn't specify who sent a given message.
>> Will
>> > this be changed soon?
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Quintus <…s@q…>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> > Sidenote: All posts coming from the mailinglist are automatically
>> >> > rendered as Markdown on the forum website. So if in your emails to the
>> >> > mailinglist you use Syntax like
>> >>
>> >> To be clear and to prove that answering from the mailinglist works, the
>> >> syntax looks like this in plain email of course:
>> >>
>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ruby
>> >> def foo
>> >> end
>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >>
>> >> That is, in your mails of course you only use one level of tilde
>> >> characters.
>> >>
>> >> Forum markup is handed to the mailinglist as-is.
>> >>
>> >> Valete,
>> >> Quintus
>> >>
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