[Evolution-users] Local delivery account

[Pete Biggs]

On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 10:13 -0400, janos via evolution-users wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 10:54 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2025-10-25 at 22:25 -0400, janos via evolution-users wrote:
> > Reply-to-All is still necessary when replying to someone who had
> > themselves used Reply-to-All, because the various List-* headers
> > are no
> > longer present in their message.
> Let me get this straight:
> 
> * if the "From:" line has somebody@<email address> then Reply to list
> is appropriate, and the composed reply will show To: evolution-
> users at lists.usoosl.org only
> 
> * if the "From:" line has something--- via evolution-users
> <evolution-users at lists.osuosl.org> then Reply-to-All is the correct
> way, and the composed reply will show "To:" both email address; the
> "...via evolution users" and the evolution-
> users at lists.usoosl.org addresses.
> 

The "via evolution-users" in the From: is nothing to do with how the
sender has set things.  From memory - a long distant memory - I think
it's because some domains are configured to tell the MTA end points to
reject emails if the source does not correspond to the domains
associated with the users address in the From: - I want to say it's
down to the SPF/DKIM/DMARC settings of the sending domain, but I could
be wrong - it might be some other security setting - but it's an anti-
spam/spoofing configuration.  For the affected sending domains the
mailing list software will re-write the From: header so that it appears
to come from a domain that match's the mailing list address.

It's a red herring when it comes to list configuration!

P.