Re: un5ub5cribe_policy question

[Richard Draves <draves @ bard . edu>]

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.

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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