Michael Belanger wrote: >I have recently set up Mailman version 2.1.13. Everything works as >expected except for the email form I use on my website to unsubscribe >folks. > >It takes and email address submission and composes an email to >[email protected] with body of: > >unsubscribe [email protected] >end > >apache gets an email response from mailman as follows: >... > > >The results of your email command are provided below. Attached is your >original message. > >- Results: > Usage: > > unsubscribe [password] [address=<address>] > Unsubscribe from the mailing list. If given, your password must >match > your current password. If omitted, a confirmation email will be >sent > to the unsubscribing address. If you wish to unsubscribe an >address > other than the address you sent this request from, you may >specify > `address=<address>' (no brackets around the email address, and >no > quotes!) > > >- Unprocessed: > unsubscribe [email protected] > end
This was solved on the #mailman irc channel after the post was submitted, but before it was approved. The "unsubscribe [email protected]" command in the message body was unprocessed because there was an invalid command in the subject. The subject was "Remove from my email List" and remove is a synonym for unsubscribe, so the subject looked like an unsubscribe command with syntax errors and produced the Usage: message for 'unsubscribe'. Emails to the -request address can contain commands in the Subject: header. UnVERPed confirmations in particular work this way. Thus, if the Subject is not intended to be a command, it must not begin with any of the following email command words: confirm echo end help info join leave lists password remove set stop subscribe unsubscribe who or it will be interpreted as a command and if it contains an error, will abort processing of the actual command(s). -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
