When posting to a forum (through the web), ListHandler will insert the registered user's email address into the "From" header when posting to the mailing list. This presents two problems:

1. The user's email address is exposed

2. Most mailing listservs ('mailman' in particular) are configured to only allow subscribers to post. If a user is only registered through drupal -- and not the mailing listserv -- then his posting will not appear on the mailing list. Currently, the only solution to this issue is to require users register on both the listserv and on drupal, which is rather cumbersome.

On my local install, I have hacked the listhandler module so that it always uses the Administrative email as the "From" email address (even in cases where the user is not an anonymous visitor). I then register this administrative email with the mailman listserv as a verified email address (i.e. to allow posting).

Feature request: add a 'checkbox' configuration option to ListHandler to indicate whether the Administrative email should always be used for the "From" header.

Comments

russ_drupal’s picture

It would be nice to be able to choose the account as a global setting instead of hard wireing the admin account.
When posting with this special account it would be nice to merge the name of the sender with the name of the special accountwhen display the account name for the post.

philipnet’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » philipnet
cor3huis’s picture

Bump, @emccaughrin well thought of a valid feature request. Sadly no response in a looooong time.

cor3huis’s picture

Priority: Normal » Major

Making the Priority higher, but still a feature, therefore it has no influence over the Category Bug ofcourse. @emccaughrin if you accidentally leaned how to program PHP it would be great if you could make a patch and provide it to the community. Or if others using Drupal, hereby a plea to add this functionality.

cor3huis’s picture

Title: "From" header issues » Option to have "From" header value enforced
Version: master » 6.x-1.x-dev
cor3huis’s picture

Title: Option to have "From" header value enforced » Option to have "From" header value via a forced value
cor3huis’s picture

Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.0