[Mailman-Users] automatic unsubscription
Dan Wilder
dan at ssc.com
Fri Jan 12 07:46:18 CET 2001
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:05:57PM +0530, Satya wrote:
> 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...
Or check out "formail".
That sort of thing is what formail is for.
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