[Mailman-Users] Not knowing what address is subscribed

[Skip Montanaro]

    Allan> We're getting some people wanting to check their address in
    Allan> Mailman to see how we subscribed them (we seeded lists with
    Allan> extracts from our main database), and they don't know what
    Allan> address we used for them.

This is kinda techno-nerdy which might not match your user population very
well, but in many/most situations people should be able to look at the
Received: headers (when the personalization footer is absent) and work their
way from bottom to top to see what address of theirs is subscribed based
upon who it's being delivered to.  Here are the Received: headers I got from
your message, numbered for convenience:

    7. Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.1.0)
              for skip at localhost (single-drop); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:16:20 -0500 (CDT)
    6. Received: from dolly1.pobox.com (dolly1.pobox.com [207.106.49.22])
              by manatee.mojam.com (8.12.1-20030917/8.12.1) with ESMTP id
              h9DJF972002640
              for <skip at manatee.mojam.com>; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:15:09 -0500
    5. Received: from dolly1.pobox.com (localhost[127.0.0.1])
              by dolly1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0310BA062
              for <skip at manatee.mojam.com>; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:15:07 -0400 (EDT)
       Delivered-To: skip at pobox.com
    4. Received: from mail.python.org (mail.python.org[12.155.117.29])
              by dolly1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE735B8D8B
              for <skip at pobox.com>; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:12:44 -0400 (EDT)
    3. Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.python.org)
              by mail.python.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A987Y-0005WZ-Ip
              for skip at pobox.com; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:12:44 -0400
    2. Received: from [155.106.252.242] (helo=mail.prin.edu)
              by mail.python.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A985f-0004g0-9f
              for mailman-users at python.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:10:47 -0400
    1. Received: from AllanTrick.prin.edu ([155.106.116.4])
              by mail.prin.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9DJ86216797
              for <mailman-users at python.org>; Mon, 13 Oct 2003 14:08:06 -0500

The server running Mailman will probably talk directly to the MX host for
the destination domain.  In this case, "skip at pobox.com" appears in #3 while
the message is still on mail.python.org as well as in #4 once it gets to
dolly1.pobox.com.

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