Adrian Wells wrote: >Hello all. I recently discovered a concern with the manner in which >Mailman handles confirmation messages with modified subject lines. > >Normally a confirmation message has a subject line such as: >confirm xxx... > >It is understood that the subject line is not to be modified. With all >confirmation subscription messages there is a note sent stating as such. >Most recipients have no problem with this, but occasionally before a >confirmation message reaches its final destination, a spam filter, virus >scanner, mail server, etc will modify the subject line so it arrives >modified in the end users' mailbox. For example, a tag like "[BULK]" is >added: "[BULK] confirm xxx...". Now the end user follows the directions >and does not modify the message BUT it's already modified. > >This extra text in the subject line causes problems (e.g. replies to >confirmations are not successfully processed so an user end does not >become a member of the list as he/she would expect). However replying to >a confirmation message with a prefix like "Re:" does not seem to create >problems, for example: Re: confirm xxx...
Actually, a single extra field such as "[BULK] confirm token_string" should work OK, but "Re: [BULK] confirm token_string" will not work. This is because if the subject itself is not a valid command, the first 'argument' of the subject is removed and the remainder is tried again, but this is only done once. I once worked up a patch to do it up to twice to handle "Re : confirm token_string" which you might be able to find in the archives of mailman-users@python.org or maybe this list. > >Would it not be better to have Mailman search for a substring, "confirm >xxx..."? This would allow any prefixes to be ignored. > >If this seems like a reasonable change, which component of Mailman is >responsible for this? (still learning how Mailman operates). The code is in the do_command() method in Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers 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-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
