[Mailman-Developers] Mailman keying on Sender: Field

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "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