Re: un5ub5cribe_policy question

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Richard Draves wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 16:04:45 -0400
> From: Richard Draves <[email protected]>
> To: Bob Vaughan <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Subject: Re: un5ub5cribe_policy question
> 
> We are using Majordomo 1.94.5
> 
> I have further observed with a setting of closed - meaning that the 
> owner should be the ONLY remover of addresses, that an individual can 
> successfully remove themselves without the owner. And it doesn't seem to 
> matter about the presence of <listname>.closed either.

See:  ftp://ftp.ccsf.org/majordomo-patches/1.94.5/majordomo.5
And:
http://www.greatcircle.com/lists/majordomo-users/mhonarc/majordomo-users.200009/msg00179.html

> Bob Vaughan wrote:
> > Pardon the munging.. the previous attempt vanished into the ether.
> >
> >
> > The example config seems to indicate that setting un5ub5cribe_policy to auto+confirm 
> > will send a confirmation email to the requestor if the requested address does not
> > match the 5ub5sribed address, but not if they match.
> >
> > from config_parse.pl:
> >
> > 'un5ub5cribe_policy', 
> > "One of three values: open, closed, auto; plus an optional modifier:
> > '+confirm'.  Open allows people to un5ub5cribe themselves from the
> > list. Auto allows anybody to un5ub5cribe anybody to the list without
> > maintainer approval. The existence of the file <listname>.auto is the
> > same as specifying the value auto.  Closed requires maintainer
> > approval for all un5ub5cribe requests to the list. In addition to the
> > keyword, if the file <listname>.closed exists, it is the same as
> > specifying the value closed. Adding '+confirm', ie, 'auto+confirm',
> > will cause majordomo to send a reply back to the 5ub5criber if the
> > request didn't come from the 5ub5criber. The reply includes a
> > authentication number which must be sent back in with another
> > 5ub5cribe command.  The value of this keyword overrides the value
> > supplied by any existent files.",
> >
> >
> > However, it dose't appear to work as advertised. 
> >
> > Is this a known problem, or is there something I am missing?
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> Dick Draves
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> 
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