Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP

2007-11-29 Thread Mark Sapiro
Christopher Adams wrote: > >So, if all I want to do (which was my original question) is to VERP >confirmations, I only have to add this to Postfix: > >default_verp_delimiters = += >verp_delimiter_filter = -+=x Actually, you don't need either of these. default_verp_delimiters specifies the defaul

Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP

2007-11-29 Thread Brad Knowles
On 11/29/07, Christopher Adams wrote: > Thanks to all for the plethora of information about VERP and how it is > used by the MTAs and Mailman. Just for clarification, I don't have a > list of 250,000 subscribers, just a site that has a total of 250,000 > subscribers over 500+ lists. I think th

Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Adams
Thanks to all for the plethora of information about VERP and how it is used by the MTAs and Mailman. Just for clarification, I don't have a list of 250,000 subscribers, just a site that has a total of 250,000 subscribers over 500+ lists. I think the largest is about 40,000. So, if all I want to do

Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP

2007-11-27 Thread Brad Knowles
On 11/27/07, Mark Sapiro wrote: > As a point of reference however, there are lots of lists on python.org > and some are quite busy (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and they are > personalized and it seems to work OK. Brad has posted on this in the > past >

Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP

2007-11-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Christopher Adams wrote: > >One concern - Charles mentioned how 'expensive' it was to use VERP >with Postfix. I am wondering what kind of hit on the responsiveness of >my Mailman server will be. I have over 500 lists and 250,000 >subscribers. If VERP being used for Mailman causes more mail activity

Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Adams
Thank you for clarifying that. I assumed from the Postfix/VERP configuration documentation (below) that the '+' delimiter would be used regardless of entering it in the Postfix main.cf file. I should tried adding it anyway, but I hadn't gotten to that step yet. Thanks, it works as it should. Quot

Re: [Mailman-Users] another question about invitation confirmationsubject line/VERP

2007-11-27 Thread Mark Sapiro
Christopher Adams wrote: > >One question- Since the subject line is changed and replaces the >confirmation ID code with other text, does that mean that simple >replying to the message to confirmm will no work? It will still work if your incoming MTA recognizes addresses of the form [EMAIL PRO