[Mailman-Users] RE: Disabling Passwords

[Larry Hansford]

At 08:23 PM 3/26/2003, Dallas Bethune wrote:

>I'm not sure how he set it up, but you could just set up a
>'subscription form' or whatever that your users fill in that hooks into
>a cgi script that just sends off an email to the appropriate mailman
>subscribe address.  If you subscribe an address via email with mailman,
>it will just make up a random password for the user.  If your users
>don't need to use it ever, they'll never know the difference.
>
>         Dallas

That's basically it.

I disabled:
    Sending Welcome Message
    Sending Goodbye Message
    Sending password reminders
    Digests
    Archives

I removed the footer with the web link
I set all list members as Moderated, except the ones allowed to post to the 
list
I set all moderated members or non-members to reject with a message of the 
address to send mail to
I set an Explicit Reply-To address
I set subscriptions to require approval, but not unsubscriptions

Initial setup is done with mass subscriptions.  Large lists are broken down 
into multiple text files with 1,000 names or less per list, and then mass 
subscriptions done multiple times.

Subsequent subscriptions are done either via the List Owner adding them, or 
via e-mail subscribe. the same with unsubscribes.

I think that is basically the setup.

Larry




>On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 05:00 pm, Sullivan, John wrote:
>
>>Is that a manual process? Do they send the unsubscribe to you and then
>>you
>>take them off the list or is that a scripted feature of 2.1 that is not
>>available in 2.0.
>>
>>If it is not manual how did you go about configuring it..
>>
>>Thanks for your help..
>>
>>John
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Larry Hansford [mailto:lhansfor at lch-assoc.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:06 PM
>>To: Sullivan, John
>>Cc: mailman-users at python.org
>>Subject: Re: Disabling Passwords
>>
>>At 07:28 PM 3/26/2003, you wrote:
>>>I am using Mailman V 2.0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I want to know how I can disable the need for a new subscriber to
>>>create
>>>password. I think the subscribers are going to find it quite annoying
>>>that
>>>they have to create a password for our newsletter. They should just
>>>have
>>>subscribe and unsubscribe options...
>>
>>I use v2.1.1, and have a lot of lists set up as "Newsletter" style, and
>>none of the users are given passwords.  Since I don't allow archiving
>>of
>>the newsletters, and they don't want/need to go to the web page to
>>change
>>their settings, they are subscribed and unsubscribed without notices
>>being
>>sent to the members.
>>
>>Larry
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Your Comments are appreciated...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>john
>>
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