William Yardley wrote:
http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030545 seems to suggest that it's possible to enable personalization (for headers / footers of messages), without enabling VERP itself (for the envelope-sender of messages).
Is that correct? Some of the mailing list messages I have seen seem to imply that you have to also
Yes, that is correct. personalization and VERP are independent. The conflation comes because if you are already VERPing all messages, there is no additional sending cost for personalization, or if you are personalizing some messages, you can VERP those at no extra cost by setting VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = Yes.
Also, is it possible to toggle personalization under the hood (using withlist / config_list to set 'mlist.personalize = 2') /without/ enabling OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION globally? I have a case where I'd like to enable personalization for a couple of lists without allowing any other list owners to enable this feature.
You can do it with withlist. You can't do it in the 'usual' way with config_list because config_list knows that personalize is not a property that can be set if OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION is false. You can do it with config_list by setting
mlist.personalize = 2
just not by setting
personalize = 2
However, if all you want is to enable the header/footer replacements and not personalize the To: header of delivered messages, you want to set personalize to 1, not 2.
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