[clamav-users] OT: mailing list behaviours (Re: Part 2: Dynamic engine module for scanning media files (e.g., MP3, MP4, etc.)?)

[Kris Deugau]

Crystalslave wrote:
> Return-Path: harlequin738 at gmail.com
>
> First off, my apologies for the confusion. This is my first time
> posting to a mailing list; I didn't really know how to handle the
> return path thing, so I had to start over. Is this better? The return
> path goes at the top of the message body, right? Or is it the subject
> line? The verbiage on the ML FAQ is a little ambiguous.

> http://www.clamav.net/documents/mailing-lists-faq

TBH I had to go have a look to see what you were talking about;  in ~20+ 
years participating in various lists like this I've never met one that 
had such a strange public-facing requirement for something that's part 
of the internals of normal mail system operation.  "Return-Path" is a 
generated header most commonly added to a message on final delivery, not 
something you add in the body or as an outgoing header.

The sentence "Please check that your outgoing messages start with a line 
like the following: Return-Path: me at mydomain.com where me at mydomain.com 
is the mail account which you used to subscribe to the mailing-list." 
should really be removed outright, along with the last sentence "You 
will be able to post to the mailing-lists by putting any of those 
addresses in Return-Path.".

"Subscribers-only" posting is common on "interactive" mailing lists like 
this one - technically inclined or not.  So long as you're using a 
regular mail program to send to the list, and you have your user profile 
set to the address you subscribed with, you should be fine.

-kgd