[Mailman-Users] Problems with Subject Generated via Invites

[Mark Sapiro]

Geoff Deering wrote:
>.  At first glance it looks like any old spammer phishing for login 
>information.  Is it possible to modify the mass mailout subscribe/invite 
>so there is a custom subject header?


If you set

VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes

in mm_cfg.py, the subject will be "You have been invited to join the
<listname> mailing list", and the confirm token will be embedded in
the From: address as in

From:
listname-confirm+23a6e1fdf979dd223e7466e95deb10f486ba3b79 at example.com

This requires that your incoming MTA recognizes that the "+token"
suffix in the local part is in fact a suffix and deliver a reply as if
addressed to listname-confirm at example.com.

You have some control over the form of this with the mm_cfg.py settings
for VERP_CONFIRM_FORMAT and VERP_CONFIRM_REGEXP, but many MTA's will
do the right thing without your having to adjust anything.

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