On Thu 1999-01-21 (04:40), Russell Nelson wrote:
> Fred Lindberg writes:
> > On 19 Jan 1999 20:11:56 -0000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> >
> > >Okay, VERP has solved the bounce problem. Now we need VERB (Variable
> > >Envelope Recipient in Body) to solve the unsubscribe problem.
> > >Basically, we need qmail-remote to merge the envelope recipient into
> > >the message somewhere. The problem, of course, is *where* to insert
> >
> > I think the substitution idea is good, but putting it into the message
> > is Not Good (TM). qmail should not under any circumstances corrupt the
> > message, which might contain any character sequence.
>
> Right, that's the conundrum. It has to be in the body to be useful,
> yet it cannot be in the body. Maybe a magical header which means
> "When you see X, substitute the envelope recipient"? Like this:
>
> VERB-Substitute: 4jiu%8@#l
>
> No header, no body munging.
How about a header like:
X-Append: To unsubscribe send mail to: qmail-unsubsribe-$USER=$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And then the contents of that header get appended to the end of the message.
That way you don't actually have to alter the contents of the message at all.
- Keith
> -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
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