ichudov@algebra.com enscribed thusly:

Hi All,

I would like to set up my majordomo to request subscription confirmations from users, by sending them a cookie. Looking at the majordomo config files, I have not found such option.

Majordomo 1.94 and above... subscribe_policy = open+confirm Last I looked, majordomo does not have subscription expirations or periodic confirmations. A couple of months ago someone else on a large mailing list I help run suggested a package that would periodically mail a bounce probe. The probe would have explicit instructions to do NOTHING if you wanted to remain on the list, just ignore the message. If the message came back, due to an E-Mail bounce, vacation program, or someone who decided they didn't want to remain on the list after all, you toasted them off. Sort of an inverse confirmation message. I lost the message about the package before I could find it. It sounds like a great compliment to majordomo. Maybe should be another feature for majordomo? Anyone who has heard of this add-on, let me know. I'm still looking for it.

Ideally I would like to have a system that a) requires the new users confirm new subscriptions and b) once in a while as users to confirm their existing subscriptions.

The instruction which go back with the job results and the confirmation need to be beefed up. I've had a lot of subscribers get "confused" when their STUPID windows mailer breaks their "auth" message into two lines and majordomo refuses to recognize it. Forwarding the confirmation message back or "replying" to it tend to screw up big time, so I modified the message in my version to instruct users to "create a new message with this line as the only line in the body". It's cut down on the screwed up subscriptions immensely. Majordomo also needs to be enhanced a bit to flush out bits and pieces of floatsam in the E-Mail address that are not valid E-Mail addresses... Example: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com> would result in messages going back to Michael, H., and Warfield, as well as mhw@wittsend.com. I'm planning on cleaning out any whitespace separated tokens which do not contain an embedded "@" followed by a least one "." and ending with an alpha or a ".". That's on my to-do list for this week or next... Along with upgrading to 1.94.1.

Is there any way to do it?

Thank you.

- Igor.

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