Russ Romano wrote: > >I'm new to the mailman users list. I was a remote admin for a >listproc-based mailing list for many years and upgrading to mailman a >couple of years ago. A recent upgrade by our ISP pushed me to mailman >v2.0.13, and certain features appear to have been lost/hidden in this >migration. I was hoping this group could provide some insight.
2.0.13 is very old. 2.1 inal was released in Dec, 2002. Current is 2.1.6. Urge your ISP to upgrade. >The biggest issue is that subscription confirmation via email doesn't >appear to work at all. I'm not sure if mailman is having trouble with >HTML or MIME in the replies, or the appended >'s in the reply cause >problems... but it isn't working for the majority of my users. In the >past there was a very reliable web-based confirmation. I know this >still exists because I used it to confirm my subscription to THIS list, >but on my confirmation emails it is missing, and I can't find an option >to turn it on via the admin interface. I don't know about 2.0.13 at all. I don't know if it supports web confirmation. What I do know is that in 2.1 problems arise in e-mail confirmations if the users MUA does funny stuff with the subject. A confirmation message to the user has Subject: confirm <token>. A confirming reply needs to go to the listname-request address with the same subject. There is a kludge so that a reply with a subject such as Subject: Re: confirm <token> will work, but the kludge only ignores at most one 'token' preceding 'confirm' so that for example Subject: Re : confirm <token> will not work (note the space between Re and :). I don't know if any of this is relevant to your situation. Again, your best solution is to convince your provider to upgrade if you can. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp