[Mailman-Users] Disabling VERP

Tom Maddox tmaddox at thereinc.com
Tue Feb 4 23:02:16 CET 2003


> > > >So, is it possible to disable the VERP functionality in some
> fashion?  My
> > > >users would prefer to have regular From: and Reply-to:
> headers, not the
> > > >irritating VERP ones.  I'm hesitant to make changes to the
> > > VERP_FORMAT and
> > > >VERP_REGEXP lines in mm_cfg.py without knowing precisely what
> > > effect doing
> > > >so will have, plus I'm not entirely sure that those are the
> > > lines I should
> > > >be changing.
> > > >
> > > >TIA,
> > > >
> > > >Tom
> >
> > > You shouldn't need to change VERP_FORMAT and VERP_REGEXP to
> > > disable VERP'ing
> > >
> > > The following variables should disable VERP'ed return addresses:
> > >
> > > VERP_PASSWORD_REMINDERS = 0
> > > VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES = 0
> > > VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 0
> > > VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = 0
> > >
> > > If these are set so (installation default ??) then your users
> > > shouldn't be
> > > seeing VERP'ed return addresses
> >
> >Good theory, but sadly false.  I didn't configure anything special when I
> >upgraded to 2.1, and I'm getting the VERP headers.
> >
>
>
> Odd because this is exactly the setup I have with MM 2.1 and Mailman does
> not send out VERP'ed return address. But it did for a period when I set
> VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1 to evaluate the performance impact of VERP'ing
> (and flush out a few irritating untraceable bouncing mail
> addresses). When
> I changed back to VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 0, return addresses stopped
> being VERP'ed and the outgoing mail started being chunked again.

I tried twiddling the VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL setting, but it made no
difference.





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