[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#272487: mailman: VERP issues

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:29:55PM +0100, Cord Beermann wrote:

>>> You should note that mailman uses VERP-Mails to sent out
>>> Bounce-Probes, and if it not possible to run Mailman without VERP
>>> you should really stress the fact in NEWS.Debian or something.

>>> Else mailman will still work, but automagic bounce-processinmg and
>>> unsubscribing won't work.

>> It is possible to run Mailman without VERP support in the MTA; just
>> don't tell Mailman to use VERP. As far as I know, it doesn't do any
>> VERP-like thing by default; it has to be explicitly enabled in
>> mm_cfg if you _want_ to use it.

>> You sure you don't have any VERP settings in your mm_cfg? If you
>> don't have any VERP settings in mm_cfg and mailman _still_ does
>> VERP-like things, then please reopen the bug.

> I'm sure. and you are mostly right. Mailman runs without VERP. The
> one thing i found that didn't work is the probe for a bounce, when a
> subscriber has exceeded the allowed bounce count.

You mean it gets sent out with a SMTP sender like
${MAILING_LIST}-bounces+${RECIPIENT}@${DOMAIN} ?

I just tested it with my "play" mailman installation, and the "Your
Membership Is Disabled" mail is sent from
${MAILING_LIST}-bounces@${DOMAIN} . Please do (replace any_list with a
list of yours):

 /var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist any_list

and then issue the commands (without leading space)

 from Mailman import mm_cfg
 mm_cfg.VERP_PROBES

What does it answer?

-- 
Lionel