ezmlm-confirm(1)ezmlm-confirm(1)NAMEezmlm-confirm - process user actions for message confirm and discard
SYNOPSISezmlm-confirm [-cCrRvV] dir [ /path/program args ]
DESCRIPTIONezmlm-confirm reads a mail message, expecting it to contain an -confirm
or -discard action request for the mailing list stored in dir.
ezmlm-confirm verifies the cookie sent as part of the action request,
and if correct attempts to find the corresponding message in
dir/mod/unconfirmed/. If the message is found, it is either discarded
or posted to the list, depending on the action request.
Posts to the list are handled by piping the message to ezmlm-send(1)
located in the ezmlm binary directory, as set at compile time. This is
usually the directory that ezmlm-moderate resides in. ezmlm-send(1) is
provided with dir as the first argument.
If the optional second argument is given, ezmlm-confirm pipes the mes‐
sage to that program. No additional parameters are supplied.
dir is passed as an argument to ezmlm-send(1), but NOT to any program
specified as the optional ezmlm-confirm command line argument.
ezmlm-confirm does not bother to correctly set sender. ezmlm-send(1)
doesn't care, and any other program that might be used can parse the
sender from the first line of the message, which is always Return-Path:
<address@host.domain> as build from SENDER originally passed to ezmlm-
store(1).
Once the message has been successfully accepted or discarded, it is
removed from dir/mod/unconfirmed/.
If the message is not found in dir/mod/unconfirmed/, it has timed out
and the message or the message stub has been removed by ezmlm-clean(1).
In this case, ezmlm-confirm notifies the sender of the failure. Noti‐
fication is in the form of a fatal error from qmail.
At the beginning of the message, ezmlm-confirm prints a new Mailing-
List field with the contents of the TXT_MAILING_LIST message. It
rejects the message if there is already a Mailing-List field.
ezmlm-confirm does not distribute bounce messages: if the environment
variable SENDER is set, and is either empty or #@[], ezmlm-confirm
rejects the message.
OPTIONS-cCrR Passed on to ezmlm-send(1).
-v Display ezmlm-confirm version information.
-V Display ezmlm-confirm version information.
CHARACTER SETS
If dir/charset exists, ezmlm-confirm will use the character set listed
for all messages. Otherwise, the default ``us-ascii'' will be used. The
character set can be suffixed by ``:'' followed by a code. If the code
is ``Q'', outgoing messages are sent as ``Quoted-Printable'', if it is
``B'' they are sent ``base64'' encoded. Otherwise, text is sent as is.
SEE ALSOezmlm-moderate(1), ezmlm-clean(1), ezmlm-make(1), ezmlm-send(1), ezmlm-
store(1), ezmlm(5)ezmlm-confirm(1)
