[Mailman-Developers] Mailman keying on Sender: Field

[Ted Cabeen]

In message <38D8D47F.219AEA87@uchicago.edu>, Roberto Ullfig writes:
>I noticed that Mailman keys on the Sender: field when you email
>in a subscription request. Is this really necessary? Is it
>possible to reconfigure Mailman to key on the From: field
>instead? Is this more or less desirable? Since confirmations are
>always in place it seems to me that there's enough protection as
>it is without using the Sender: field.

That will be in the 2.0 release.  It's supposed to be supported in 1.1, but 
it's a little broken.  I posted a patch to 1.1 that allows From matching, so 
you can check the archives and find it if you don't want to wait.

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