[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >All of the tests below where based on a user sending a mail with "subscribe" >to the mail distro [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I instead have the user send the >subscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], they get added to the distro without >confirmation or approver interaction. > >Ok, that's the behavior that I want but are the two different behaviors >expected? Specifically, the "open" list mechanism only operates as "open" if >you send mail to the "-request" list? > >It looks when messages are sent to the main list (with subscribe as subject), >they are correctly being identifed as admin in nature, but flagged for >approval whereas the list is defined as open for subscriptions.
Subscription requests are sent to the list-xyz-request (or list-xyz-join or list-xyz-subscribe) address. Posts to the list members are sent to the list-xyz address. If something that looks like a 'request' is sent to the list posting address, and the General Options administrivia setting is set to Yes, that message is held for approval as a post, not as a request, so a human can decide if it is a misdirected request or a valid post that just happens to look like a request. In no case is a request sent to the list posting address automatically processed as a request. Consider a list post about subscribing with subject 'Subscribe'. Do we treat this as a subscribe request or as a post to the list? We don't know, so we hold it for a human to review. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
