GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 714078
Indicate when message is sent on behalf of another sender
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:25:38 UTC
---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2012-12-03 15:39:00 -0800 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 6119 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/6119 Searchable id: yorba-bug-6119 Original author: Jim Nelson Original description: When a message from a mailing list is displayed in Gmail, you'll see something like this in the header: **Jim Nelson** via lists.yorba.org This is handy and would be nice to have in any situation where a message is sent on behalf of somebody else. More information at [http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=ma il&answer=1311182](http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail &answer=1311182) Related issues: related to geary - Feature #6444: Support List-Unsubscribe: header (Open) related to geary - Feature #6558: Better handling for mailing lists (than GMail webapp). (Invalid) duplicated by geary - 6513: indicate that a message was sent on behalf of somebody (Duplicate) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-11-14 17:16:00 -0800 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago * **Target version** changed from _0.3.0_ to _0.4.0_ #### #2 Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago * **Subject** changed from _Indicate when message comes through a remailer_ to _Indicate when message is sent on behalf of another sender_ * **Description** updated (diff) #### #3 Updated by Jim Nelson 8 months ago * **Target version** changed from _0.4.0_ to _0.5.0_ #### #4 Updated by Jim Nelson 7 days ago * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.5.0_</strike>) --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:24 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 6119 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6119 Unknown version " in product geary. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
AFAICT this is handled using the Sender header: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-3.6.2: > The "From:" field specifies the author(s) of the message, > that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible > for the writing of the message. The "Sender:" field specifies the > mailbox of the agent responsible for the actual transmission of the > message. I /think/ this is how Gmail works out the "via ..." stuff.
See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4728393/should-i-use-the-reply-to-header-when-sending-emails-as-a-service-to-others
This was partially addressed in 898fa33 for Bug 765516, but currently shows the full email address. Need to investigate when and whether that can be cut down to just a domain, per GMail's approach.
*** Bug 772754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Some use cases that should be taken into account: 1. Multiple From addresses (e.g. Person A sending on behalf of Person B and Person C) 2. All From addresses having the same domain as the Sender domain (e.g. Person A sending on behalf of Person B) 3. Some From addresses having different domains as the Sender domain 4. GMail uses Sender to specify the GMail account alias when specifying an alias as the From address 5. Mailman uses "list-name <list-name-bounces@example.com>" as the From address 6. Bulk mailers often use "some label <opaqueid@bulkmailer.com>" as the From address So it seems we may want to use just the Sender address label if available, else the actual email address? If so we then need to work out the formatting and implementation. Currently Geary is using a GtkFlowBox for the addresses. We could just add the Sender as an additional child, but flow boxes require evenly distributed, aligned column widths, which makes using things like parentheses awkward, i.e. instead of getting this: | Person A <example.com> (sent by Person B) 5 min ago | You get: | Person A <example.com> (sent by Person B) 5 min ago | The Sender could be added to the FlowBoxChild of the last From address, but that also causes issues, with say odd numbers of From addresses: | Person A <example.com> Person B <example.com> 5 min ago | | Person C <example.com> (sent by Person D) |
Bump tickets to 0.14 that aren't going to make 0.13.
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