[Mailman-Users] Problem with multiple subscription confirmation messages

[Barry Warsaw]

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 17:17, S. Krishnan wrote:
> I just upgraded my mailman 2.0.13 install to 2.1.1 by downloading and
> installing from source. The previous version worked fine.  However,
> 2.1.1 has a major issue with subscription messages.  Every time someone
> subscribes to a list, mailman sends them a mailing list subscription
> confirmation notice.  With mailman 2.1.1, replying to this notice does
> not seem to work.  Instead of confirming the subscription, it sends
> *another* mailing list subscription confirmation notice, with a
> different number.  Replying to this results in yet another subscription
> confirmation notice! 
> 
> However, subscription confirmation off the web page works OK.  It is
> only the confirmation by reply to the notice that is broken.

That certainly sounds broken!  But I've never seen this problem before,
so I don't know what's happening.  Start by examining your mail server
logs, and more importantly your Mailman logs, for clues.

If this doesn't help, we'll have to dig deeper.

-Barry