[Mailman-Users] Avoiding DMARC unsubscribes by enabling VERP_PROBES

[Mark Sapiro]

On 05/18/2014 01:14 AM, Peter Shute wrote:
> Why isn't this the default setting? Is there some disadvantage to it?


In addition to what Stephen said, VERP_PROBES requires that your MTA be
configured to recognize address local parts of the form
listname-bounces+token and deliver them the same as listname-bounces (In
Postfix, 'recipient_delimiter = +') or to use a different delimiter that
VERP_PROBE_FORMAT and VERP_PROBE_REGEXP be adjusted.

Since we can't rely on that, and since if it doesn't work, no one will
ever have delivery disabled or be removed by bounce processing, the
default is No.

When this feature was first implemented in 2.1.5, it was always on. It
was soon realized that this was a mistake and in 2.1.6 it was controlled
by a switch and defaulted to off.

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