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

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

On Sep 19, 2017, at 2:48 PM, Kris Deugau <kdeugau at vianet.ca<mailto:kdeugau at vianet.ca>> wrote:

Crystalslave wrote:
Return-Path: harlequin738 at gmail.com<mailto: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<mailto:me at mydomain.com> where me at mydomain.com<mailto: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.


I agree that it’s unnecessary.  I’ve removed the verbiage.