[Mailman-Users] Subscribing people by email

[Simon Harrison]

Howard,

Yes, this helps me greatly and in fact we want to be able to subscribe people from a custom website form so it's a good solution.

Thanks,
 
Simon
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Lush [mailto:howie at statmail.co.uk] 
Sent: 03 July 2003 01:25
To: Simon Harrison
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Subscribing people by email


Hi Simon

I'm trying to do a very similar thing to you, and while playing around 
with the Mailman interface I found that you can subscribe someone using 
the following link:

http://<www.mydomain.com>/mailman/admin/<admin_email.com>/members?subscri
bees=<subscribe at me.com>&send_welcome_msg_to_this_batch=0&adminpw=<passwor
d>

This is based on mass subscribe form on the membership management page - 
note that the no cookies are required as the admin password is supplied 
in the URL. Potentially this could be called from a Perl script using 
something like LWP::Simple get() and so you can create your own 
subscription form.

I know it's a bit of a long way round, but it does avoid any approve or 
confirm requirements, which I am going to implement separately from 
Mailman.

Does this help?


Howard



 > Hi,
 >
 > We would like to subscribe people to Mailman 2.1.2 using a form on one  > of our websites that will generate an email to the request address 
with
 > a subscribe request, however we do not want Mailman to send 
confirmation
 > to each email address subscribed nor do we want to have to approve 
each
 > request manually.
 >
 > Is there a way of achieving this, perhaps by including an approval  > password in the body of the message so that subscribe requests are  > automatically approved without the need for a confirm.  >  > Thanks,  >  > Simon  > Becta Internet Services

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