Christopher Adams wrote:
>
>That's another question - what is the
>difference between subscribing by sending a blank message or a
>'subscribe' command to listname-join and sendilng a 'subscribe'
>command to listname-request? It appears that they do the same thing. I
>guess that's why we call them a
Mark,
Thanks for spotting that. I don't know why the aliases were formatted
that way. It looks like the pipe was being escaped or something. I
hadn't thought that it was an alias problem because most everything
seemed to be working, including sending subscription requests to the
listname-request a
Christopher Adams wrote:
>
>So, I sent a message to the listname-join address of one of my test
>lists, with no commands. The result was:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/14/2006 9:59 AM
>Failed (cannot append message to destination file
>/|/var/mailman/mail/mailman join listname: cannot crea
A user had been sending subscription requests to the listname-join
address and was being rejected. I realized that I hadn't even thought
about mailman's alias addresses. So, I began to investigate and some
user manual says that a user can send to the listname-join or
listname-subscribe to request
