Dada Mail Mailing Lists: [dadadev] Re: Change Reply-To email address

From: Justin J
Subject: [dadadev] Re: Change Reply-To email address
In-Reply-To: [dadadev] Change Reply-To email address
Date: Fri Feb 10 20:04:43 2012

On Aug 31, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Martyn Davison wrote: > In line 4049 (approx?) the entry "add_reply_to => 1," appears - I am presuming that the digit 1 indicates that the field is to be included in the email header.

No. Here's the line you're looking for, with a few lines around it:

# Dada Bridge Plugin:

group_list => 0,

open_discussion_list => 0,

        discussion_template_defang   => 1,
        only_allow_group_plain_text  => 0,
        add_reply_to                 => 1,   # here's your line
        mail_group_message_to_poster => 1,
        append_list_name_to_subject  => 1,

You're looking inside the %LIST_SETUP_DEFAULTS hash, in the group of key/value pairs that deal with Dada Bridge. That key/value maps to the Dad Mail-specific setting in Dada Bridge:

[ ] Automatically have replies to messages directed to the group

        A 'Reply-To' header will be added to group list mailings that will direct 
        replies to list messages back to the list address (some.email@example.com).

> Failing that, where abouts in the scripts can I hard code the address so that the required address gets included rather than the default one?

Try this - I haven't tested it. In DADA/App/MassSend.pm find this line:

                        $message_id = $mh->mass_send(
                                {
                                        -msg                      => {%mailing},
                                        -partial_sending  => $partial_sending, 
                                        -multi_list_send  => {
                                                                                        -lists    => [@alternative_list], 
                                                                                        -no_dupes => $multi_list_send_no_dupes, 
                                                                                 },
                                        -also_send_to     => [@alternative_list],
                                ($process =~ m/test/i) ? (-mass_test => 1, -test_recipient => $og_test_recipient,) : (-mass_test => 0,)
                                                                                 
                                }
                        ); 

And just append that %mailing hash, like this:

                        $message_id = $mh->mass_send(
                                {
                                        -msg                      => {
                                                %mailing,
                                                'Reply-To' => 'somewhere.else@example.com',
                                        },
                                        -partial_sending  => $partial_sending, 
                                        -multi_list_send  => {
                                                                                        -lists    => [@alternative_list], 
                                                                                        -no_dupes => $multi_list_send_no_dupes, 
                                                                                 },
                                        -also_send_to     => [@alternative_list],
                                ($process =~ m/test/i) ? (-mass_test => 1, -test_recipient => $og_test_recipient,) : (-mass_test => 0,)
                                                                                 
                                }
                        ); 

That'll change things for your Mass Mailing -> Send a Message screen.

> As an aside, adjacent to the Reply-To information in the config.pm file ther is unsubscription the return path field. Placing a value in here in place of the undef value results in the specified email address getting included.

Yeah, don't do that. Return-Paths usually shouldn't be set directly, but rather by the MTA itself.

> This problem is becoming quite an issue because, even though a line is included in the mailings which says "don't click on the reply to button on the email programme", a not insignificant number of people are ignoring this.

That's the thing - why would you want to send a message out to a bunch of people, but not want them to communicate back? To me, that's almost akin to breaking the stuff in Dada Mail, since you think you'd do a better job with an outside system of your own. Doing so adds a whole new set of problems, ones that the program is then blamed for.

If there is an issue, that setting a default Reply-To header doesn't work, could you please add it to the issue tracker?

http://github.com/justingit/dada-mail/issues

I'll then look at it. I never look at problems, unless they're in there. I need some help, because I can't do everything here myself. Please help. Everyone: if there's problems: add them to the issues tracker.