Dennis Putnam wrote: > > OK, to be clear the problem is one of mailbox name length. Another > list member replied privately and questioned that so I will repost > that information here. > > The number characters in my list name plus the '-request' is 6 > characters too many. I could change the list names but that would be > too much effort for list members most of which are computer > illiterate. These lists have been around for several years. The need > for confirmations simply has not come up until now. It probably never > worked from the beginning. It has been so long since I set these up > I'm not sure I remember how (IIRC, that can be set on a list-by-list > basis from the web interface) but obviously this is different. > Perhaps I should have pointed that out in the original question but I > didn't think it was really relevant. > > That being said, using list-confirm is still that same length. As for > what needs to be munged, I think only the confirmation message.
Still, if you can use VERP_CONFIRMATIONS, it would make the code modifications simpler because of the way the address is generated. The difference is without VERP_CONFIRMATIONS, the message is From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: confirm xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx... and with VERP_CONFIRMATIONS it is >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: Your confirmation is required to ... Of course, if the local part suffix is included in the length restriction, this only makes it worse and can't be used. > My > list members don't use anything else and probably wouldn't know how > anyway. In all the years these lists have been active, this is the > first time someone had to change their email address so it is the > first time a confirmation was needed. I was not aware this was going > to be a major effort. Be aware that, although I am experienced with > many various languages (scripting and otherwise), python is not among > them. Does the munging need to be done for all lists in the installation? Is it done in the same way for each list? I.e. is list-request always mapped to listreq or does the mapping vary depending on list. Can the mapping be deduced programmatically, or would it have to be looked up in a table? -- 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://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 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://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9