From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mads Martin Joergensen Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 12:36:09 +0000 Subject: Re: mail to list+subscribe if already subscribed Message-Id: <20050506123609.GA1538@mmj.dk> List-Id: References: <427A83C8.7010304@plonk.de> In-Reply-To: <427A83C8.7010304@plonk.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org * Jakob Hirsch [May 06. 2005 14:32]: > >>mlmmj seems to ignore subscribe-mails from already subscribed > >>addresses. Shouldn't it notify the user in this case? > >You might argue that it should, and the reason it doesn't is that noone > >made it so yet. > > so it's time to change that. :) Indeed. > >Why do you allow mail to the list where the listaddress is not in To: > >or Cc: in the first place? > > Because I thought there's no reason for doing so, but dumb me forgot > about control messages... And it also prevents spam. > >You should use Delivered-To: for the envelope-rcpt, postfix (and qmail) > >already does that. > > Ok, found that in the mlmmj-process manpage. > Exim has an option to add a header called Envelope-to, so it might be a > good idea to check for that, too. OTOH, it's easy to tell Exim to put > this into a Delivered-To header. I thought about using Envelope-To if there is none, but since it's not added pr. default and one have to add one or the other anyway, I prefer following the "standard" and add Delivered-To:. > >>What do you think? I'd try to put that into the code (not many > >>changes, I'd say) and send patches. > >Uuuuh, patches always sound extremely nice :-) > > on my way! :) -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.