>>>>> "TM" == Todd Morrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
TM> It seems that a user subscribing via mailman's webform thing gets all TM> this info logged in $MAILMANROOT/logs/subscribe. However the vast TM> majority of my subscribers subscribe via a custom webform (integrated TM> with a catalog request page). This custom webform just sends an email TM> to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the necessary arguments. TM> I looked in the subscribe log and it shows the users email address in TM> place of the ip address. Ideally I need it to show the appropriate ip TM> address. You can start to see some complications here, as if it were to I was just investigating this for Mailman as well... One of my lives is as running a (broadcast-only) email newsletter service using our own proprietary database-driven software. For confirmation records, we keep a copy of the confirmation request email that was sent and the headers of the confirmation reply or some details from the click-thru confirmation depending on how the confirmation was completed. We do track the IP of the original web-form submission, but that is irrelevent in dealing with most complaints. If you have a copy of the confirmation message and the evidence of the response, almost nobody will come back and say, "well, that's not good enough". Heck, even spamcop accepts this as proof of signup. If they're complaining about the confirmation message itself, well, then unless they're AOL, they will go away when you explain that it is just a confirmation message. If they're AOL, you lose, because they play by their own rules :-( As for Mailman, I think keeping this kind of record associated with each active email address would be ideal. How to go about implementing that is way beyond me, as I'm more of a perl hack, and know just enough python to know I don't know enough. Has anyone hacked up Mailman to keep such detailed records of signups and confirmations? If not, is anyone looking for consulting work to do so (and a few other mods to Mailman I need)? ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
