[Mailman-Developers] after processing a confirm in the subject line, the body should be ignored (v2.1b1)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GK" == Georg Koch <gorg@sun1.imbi.uni-freiburg.de> writes:


    GK> if you send a "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" command via email
    GK> to list-request@mailmanhost you get a confirmation message in
    GK> reply which says "To confirm that you want to be removed from
    GK> this mailing list, simply reply to this message, keeping the
    GK> Subject: header intact.".

    GK> If you do so, but include the body of the confirm message, you
    GK> get TWO messages back: a success message and a long error
    GK> message stating "There were problems with the email commands
    GK> you sent".

    GK> I find this confusing and think you cannot expect everyone to
    GK> understand "reply" as "reply with an empty body". I would
    GK> therefore propose the following behaviour change:

    GK> After a confirm command from the Subject: header field of a
    GK> message is processed successfully, the body of this message is
    GK> ignored (not processed).

Please take a look at the new command processor in MM2.1b2.  I think
it's a lot better (hopefully you'll agree. ;).

-Barry