Bug 473946 – gentoo-dev-announce posts without Reply-To

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Robin Johnson 2013-06-20 17:23:24 UTC]

From original mail by betelgeuse:
> can we implement a filter to gentoo-dev-announce that does not allow                                                                                       
> mails to get in without Reply-To being set? If it needs procmail etc                                                                                       
> work I can help with that.

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2013-06-20 17:24:51 UTC]

I have added the following rule to the mlmmj access control:
deny !^Reply-To:

[Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-06-20 17:53:54 UTC]

I am afraid this is not enough. My original e-mail had a Reply-To header set properly. The problem is that I cross-posted to multiple mailing lists. So what we need here is to prevent more than one entries in the CC: field when you send something to gentoo-dev-announce.

[Comment 3 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2013-06-20 17:55:05 UTC]

Sorry I've just read your e-mail. Well, I feel the problem is partially solved so can we keep this bug open?

[Comment 4 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2013-11-11 09:33:55 UTC]

Can infra add a proper auto-reply if the mail got rejected?
Right now the sender doesn't receive anything, right?

[Comment 5 William Hubbs 2014-07-20 18:38:18 UTC]

I submit that we shouldn't be munging the reply-to headers at all; this violates RFC2822. The below reference offers solutions for this issue.  [1].

Thanks for your consideration,

William

[1] https://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html

[Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel 2018-01-28 19:18:51 UTC]

Nothing to do for comrel here.

[Comment 7 Robin Johnson 2018-01-29 06:46:20 UTC]

We don't munge Reply-To for gentoo-dev-announce, but we do REQUIRE they are set by the author.