[Mailman-Users] confirm for one list errors, other list works

Anne Ramey anner at blast.com
Fri Aug 19 15:18:52 CEST 2005


Jim Tittsler wrote:
> On 2005-08-19 00:01, Anne Ramey wrote:
> 
>> I added a new list to my mailman yesterday (cplist), and copied the 
>> config over from another list (mbalist).  Subscribe comfirmations to 
>> cplist fail if you reply to the mail with "Invalid confirmation 
>> string:", but the link inside the mail works fine.  The reply to the 
>> subscribe confirmation for the other list (mbalist) works fine.  I'm 
>> using mailman 2.1 on linux.  Any idea what might be causing this?
> 
> 
> Do the confirmation requests come from cplist-request at example.com?
> 
> Did you remember to create the cplist aliases?  (Especially the 
> cplist-request alias pointing at "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman 
> request cplist" and not mbalist.)
> 
> 
Yes, I added the aliases:

## cplist mailing list
cplist:              "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post cplist"
cplist-admin:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman admin cplist"
cplist-bounces:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces cplist"
cplist-confirm:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman confirm cplist"
cplist-join:         "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman join cplist"
cplist-leave:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman leave cplist"
cplist-owner:        "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman owner cplist"
cplist-request:      "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman request cplist"
cplist-subscribe:    "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe cplist"
cplist-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe cplist"

And they both have the same from structure, they come from:
From: list-bounces at example.com [mailto:list-bounces at example.com] On 
Behalf Of list-request at example.com

Anne






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