March 22, 2000
4:39 p.m.
"RU" == Roberto Ullfig <rullfig@uchicago.edu> writes:
RU> I noticed that Mailman keys on the Sender: field when you
RU> email in a subscription request. Is this really necessary? Is
RU> it possible to reconfigure Mailman to key on the From: field
RU> instead? Is this more or less desirable? Since confirmations
RU> are always in place it seems to me that there's enough
RU> protection as it is without using the Sender: field.In Mailman 2.0 (currently at beta 1), this has been made much more consistent. There's a configuration variable called USE_ENVELOPE_SENDER which controls this; the default is now to use From: followed by Sender: then the envelope sender.
-Barry