On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:37:46AM -0800, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please find an information notice about mailman running this mailing list.
>
> You can change your settings at this URL:
> http://dpdk.org/ml/options/dev/
>
> There is an option "nodupes":
> "
> Avoid duplicate copies of messages?
> When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list message,
> you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list.
> "
> It is enabled most of the time (default).
>
> It may be helpful to disable "nodupes", i.e. receive copies, to filter
> whole threads from the mailing list (List-Id) in a folder while keeping
> a copy of the messages addressed to you in your inbox.
> It is a way to avoid missing important messages.
>
> For those who want to keep "nodupes" enabled, i.e. receive only one copy,
> mailman will not send them the messages where they are explicit recipients.
> So they will receive only the message directly from the sender' SMTP
> (untouched by mailman).
> But it is not the full story. The other members of the mailing list will
> receive the message from mailman with a modified CC header.
> Indeed, members having enabled "nodupes" are dropped from CC list.
>
> Some members were complaining about this weird bug-haviour.
> That's why this patch has been applied to keep CC list untouched:
>
> --- mailman-2.1.15/Handlers/AvoidDuplicates.py
> +++ mailman-2.1.15/Handlers/AvoidDuplicates.py
...
>
> Thanks to Olivier for helping.
Thank you both! It is a weird bug to me.
--yliu
> If anyone is volunteer to work with mailman community, a configuration option
> could be introduced.
