I seem to be gathering a fair number of unrequited pending subscriptions on several mailing lists. I see them by grepping for "pending" in /var/log/mailman/subscribe, and then checking for corresponding "new" entries. I did this after one of my hosting clients complained that people were subscribing to her newsletter, but weren't actually getting added to the mailing list.
These are "real" subscription requests -- not spammers or other trash. They are primarily people who have asked to subscribe, and then they were sent to the sign-up page. Many of them are relatively unsophisticated Internet users. I have successfully gone through the subscription process with several alias addresses, so I know that it works -- at least from within my LAN. I can only surmise that the confirmation messages are languishing in people's spam mailbox. One of my clients is considering using a paid service called "Constant Contact" (http://www.constantcontact.com) because they claim they can get through people's spam filters. Any clues, hints, or techniques for having mailman self-subscriptions without getting the confirmation stuck in spam filters? I tried using the "listname-join" email address technique, but the confirmation comes back as from "listname-request", so it seems spam filters that allow replies to addresses previously sent to won't help here. Is there a way to make the "From:" address "listname-join" instead? (This should not cause any problems, because "Reply-To:" would still be "listname-request".) Any other thoughts or comments welcome! :::: This phase we're in of exponential growth is about over. We now have an exponential growth culture that at the present time doesn't even know how to cope with a state of non-growth. -- M. King Hubbert, 1976 :::: :::: Jan Steinman <http://www.EcoReality.org> :::: ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
