[Mailman-Users] RE: Disabling Passwords

[Dallas Bethune]

You can also unsubscribe via email so if you set up something to store  
the user's passwords somewhere, you could have another email form to  
cgi setup send off the appropriate unsubscribe request for you.

	Dallas



On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 08:45 am, Don V Black wrote:

> I want my users to easily unsubscribe without needing to use a  
> password.
>
> Does this do it? Where is this field located? :
> "I set subscriptions to require approval, but not unsubscriptions"
>
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>   Digital ChoreoGraphics
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> At 09:39 PM 3/26/2003 -0500, Larry Hansford wrote:
>> 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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