[Mailman-Users] automatic unsubscription

Satya satyap at satya.virtualave.net
Fri Jan 12 07:35:57 CET 2001


On Jan 11, 2001 at 22:04, Bob Puff @ NLE wrote:

>Ok guys, here's my feeble attempt (that works!) to allow someone to
>unsubscribe by simply sending an email to a certain address.
[etc]

>That's it!  The only disadvantage so far is that because the mailer runs
>under the permissions from Mailman, the reply "you've been unsubscribed"
>message goes to your mailman address.  If someone wants to elaborate on
>this, I'd suggest using sendmail, and making the "from:" address be the same
>as the original sender (what is extracted here).

That's it! Perfect! Instead of your unsub script, I'll call a Perl script
that'll extract the from address and do SMTP...

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