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I'm trying to change the subscription option on my mailing list from
"open" to "confirm by list owner". The intent is to have the listserv
send a questionaire to a prospective subscriber and for me to add the
person manually when I receive the completed questionaire.
After making the appropriate changes in the list header and in the
mailtpl file, I tried subscribing using a variety of mail programs.
The subscription process worked exactly as expected using Pine and
using Pegasus Mail for Windows. However, when I subscribed using
Netscape (both version 1.22 for windows and 3.01 for windows 95), here's
what happened:
a. Instead of getting the questionaire, I got a "cookie message", giving
me a confirmation code and telling me to send a second "ok" message.
b. Sending just the "ok" resulted in the following response:
> > ok
> Unfortunately, the confirmation code could not be extracted from the headers
> generated by your mail program. You will have to retype this code manually,
> as explained in the confirmation request you were sent. If you lost it, just
> issue the command again to get a new code.
c. Sending the "ok" along with the confirmation code produced the
questionaire which I should have received in the first place.
This means that a person using Netscape who wishes to subscribe to my list
must send a total of 4 messages. It makes the subscription process
unworkable.
Two questions:
(a) Is there something I should have done to avoid this problem?
(b) Is this bug known to the listserv developers (I'm using
version 1.8c under windows NT). Can it be corrected? Netscape
is such a widespread program that any mailing list
configuration must work under Netscape.
Les
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