Geoff Shang wrote: > >I just tried again to subscribe to the developers list and discovered that >you couldn't confirm your subscription just by replying. > >The message text implies that the confirmation key should be in the >subject, but the confirmation key was in the From address of the >confirmation message (see below). Replying simply send me a message >telling me that the subject line was being ignored. It seems the confirm >code was also ignored. > >Not sure how it's meant to work but it's the first time I've had to resort >to clicking on the URL.
What is supposed to happen is you reply; your MUA sends a reply to mailman-developers-confirm+519716b18b6d4ddef39fd87d0e5abdf8c5ced...@python.org This is received and posted to the command queue where it is processed by CommandRunner which parses the token from the To: address and invokes cmd_confirm to do the confirmation. There are two ways this works in general. If the site's VERP_CONFIRMATIONS setting is No (the default) the confirmation is From: listname-requ...@... with Subject: confirm <token>, and the reply is to the listname-requ...@... address with the confirm command possibly preceded by Re: in the Subject:. This works. If the site's VERP_CONFIRMATIONS setting is Yes as it is at python.org, the confirmation is From: listname-confirm+<token>@... with Subject: Your confirmation is required to join the listname mailing list, and the reply is to listname-confirm+<token>@... and this should work too. If you received a reply that your message Subject was ignored, either the To: address didn't match VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP or the reply wasn't sent to the -confirm address, or the site's MTA doesn't correctly deliver mail addressed to listname-confirm+<token>@... . I don't think it's the third alternative in this case. If the above doesn't explain what went wrong, post the message you received in reply to your reply. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
