Confirm for SmartList
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The Debian smartlist package incorporates the confirm add-on written
by Werner Reisberger, which make possible to confirm subscriptions and
unsubscriptions by using "cookies".

This feature is on by default.

The variables in rc.custom controlling this feature and their default
values are the following:

maxcookies      =       50      # Maximum number of confirm cookies
require_confirm =       yes     # Require confirmations on (un)subscriptions
confirm_subscribe =     yes     # Require confirmations on subscriptions
confirm_unsubscribe =   yes     # Require confirmations on unsubscriptions
confirm_maintainer              # If set to yes, all subscription requests
                                # will be forwarded to the maintainer(s)
                                # who have to confirm or ignore the messages.

Customization:

- The require_confirm and confirm_(un)subscribe options allows you to turn
  the function on and off on a list-by-list basis.  maxcookies is the number
  of unused cookies (i.e. confirmation numbers) kept in the cookies directory
  (if this directory does not exist, it will be created by confirm).

- confirm_maintainer allows to direct all subscription requests to the
  list maintainer(s) for confirmation. This could be used as an easy and
  nearly fool proof replacement for the remote X-Command mechanism in case
  of subscriptions. The maintainer has only to reply to the confirmation
  message and the rest will be done by confirm.

- confirm.txt is added to the confirmation message sent to those who
  request subscriptions.  confirm-help.txt is sent to those who send in
  confirmation requests that don't match existing cookies.  Feel free to
  edit.


Note: This file is a simplified version of the original "INSTALL" file
by Werner Reisberger.
