Re: Deselecting "Receive Mail" on the website ml subscribe form is broken

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:07 AM, Amir Rohan <amir.rohan@mail.com> wrote:
>
> > >>>>> subscribe pgsql-bugs
> > >---- The subscribe command did not succeed.
> > >----
> > >---- Your request to subscribe must be confirmed.
> > >---- Confirmation instructions have been sent in an e-mail message to
> > ----
> > >>>> set nomail
> > **** The "nomail" mailing list is not supported at
> > **** PostgreSQL Mailing Lists.

> I wonder if this has ever worked. Alvaro, do you know if something has
> changed there? ISTM that we pass on a "set digest" and a "set nomail"
> directly after the subscribe command -- does that work at all, since the
> subscription hasn't been confirmed yet?

I was looking at this when Amir first posted it, and I was wondering how
it was possible that it ever worked in the first place.  The second
command should really be "set pgsql-bugs nomail" (patch below), but as
you say I'm unsure that it works if the subscription hasn't been
confirmed.  A command that should work in either case is
  subscribe-set pgsql-bugs nomail
  subscribe-set pgsql-bugs nomail,digest
but I'm not sure what's the python-ish way to express that.