[Mailman-Users] Hit a but & use of VERP

[Mark Sapiro]

Larry Stone wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Henrik Rasmussen wrote:
>
>> I am new to Mailman. I currently have two problems.
>>
>> I am using Mailman version 2.1.5 with Postfix. I am able to send mails
>> to the list and the mails are sent to the subscribers. According to the
>> mail headers in the mails received from Mailman, Mailman actually uses
>> Postfix.
>>
>> Problem 1) I would like to use VERP. I have read a number of
>> documents[1] describing how to set this up, but so far Mailman is still
>> not using VERP, that is, the mails I receive from the list does not seem
>> to contain any VERPed headers.
>>
>> [1]    http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html
>>         http://www.postfix.org/VERP_README.html
>>
>> Etc. Some describes to set VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = 1 (etc.) and other
>> documents explains to set VERP_CONFIRMATIONS = Yes ,but I have tried
>> both in ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py, without luck. I have also tried to
>> set it directly in Default.py (shame on me) but also no luck.
>
>I'm not an "expert" but I believe VERP_CONFIRMATIONS only controls
>confirmation messages like the parameter name implies.


Actually, in 2.1.5 VERP_CONFIRMATIONS only affects mass subscribe
invitations by putting the confirm token in the reply address and
creating a friendlier Subject:.


>Controlling VERPing
>of list messages is done by 1) turning on Personalization (non-digest
>options in the interface; not sure how it's done for digests) which firt
>requires OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION to be set in mm_cfg.py and 2)
>setting the variables VERP_PERSONALIZED_DELIVERIES and
>VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL in mm_cfg.py.



You don't need to personalize the list in order to use VERP. Set

VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1

to VERP all regular deliveries, personalized or not.

Read the VERP section in Defaults.py for more information.

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