On Wed, 12 May 1999 10:40:58 PDT, Rich Greenberg <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >The >subscriber can use: > > Change Listname-L newaddress@newnode > >which MUST be sent from the old address and confirmed from both >addresses, so can't be used by the subscriber unless they have >overlapping access to both addresses. No, it is confirmed from the New Address only. Yes, the user must have access to both addresses for this to be successful. From the LISTSERV 1.8d Release Notes: ***************************************************** * New CHANGE command to update subscriber addresses * ***************************************************** A new CHANGE command is available in version 1.8d. There are two syntaxes: A general user syntax and a list owner/LISTSERV maintainer syntax. General user syntax: CHANGE listname|* newaddr List owner/LISTSERV maintainer syntax: [QUIET] CHANGE oldaddr|pattern newaddr|*@newhost The first form can be used by any subscriber and results in a cookie being sent to the new address. This cookie MUST be confirmed by the new address, exactly as it was entered, or the command will fail. This is the only case where a 1.8d cookie must be confirmed by a specific address. Note that this assumes that the user still has login access to both addresses, or at least the ability to send mail from the old address. The list owner form does not use cookies but simply applies the standard "Validate=" rules (as for a DELETE command). You can specify a wildcard pattern for the old address and *@newhost for the new address to rename certain addresses to a new hostname. The CHANGE1 template is sent unless you specify QUIET.