CMake discourse mailing-list mode incorrectly personally addresses all email

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My mailer software (alpine in this case) makes the important distinction
between personal email and list server email, and I assume that is also
true of other mailer software. And the cmake and cmake-devel mailing
list software default configuration supported this distinction by sending
all mail to a list server you were subscribed to by default, and only
using personally addressed email when the user was specifically
Cc’d by a poster.

So the issue is that cmake discourse mailing-list mode currently
destroys this important distinction by personally addressing every
email to users.

To fix this CMake discourse issue, please implement a set of reasonable
rules (such as specific mention of a user’s name or a reply to a
specific user or a Cc to a specific user) where personally addressed
email will be used, and otherwise use a list server mail address
(which mailing-list mode users are automatically subscribed to).

If the fix for this CMake discourse misfeature is not planned any time
soon, I would like to transfer this discussion to the CMake discourse bug
tracker. But I cannot find that so could you please let me know where
that is?

Alan

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Discourse is a general-purpose platform that we happen to deploy for CMake but do not develop or maintain ourselves. The name “mailing list mode” is a stretch IMO but that’s what Discourse devs chose. There is no real mailing list server address that forwards delivery to members or anything like that. All messages go to personal email. Really the setting just means “send me notifications for everything including my own posts”. The actual messages themselves are still normal notifications the same as in non-mailing-list-mode.

please implement a set of reasonable rules (such as specific mention of a user’s name or a reply to a
specific user or a Cc to a specific user)

Each user can configure their own such rules on a per-category or per-topic basis by setting the notification level (when not in mailing list mode). See the Forum Help page for instructions on email notifications. That allows one to at least filter notifications to topics of interest, though the notifications still always go to personal email.