[Mailman-Users] Subscribing from cell phones

[Scot Hacker]

Argh! Just minutes after finishing this up, I got a message from a 
friend. Turns out you CAN  disable subscription confirmations. See:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg31306.html

Grrrr...

(although that solution will affect lists system-wide, rather than 
per-list; anyone know of a way to make tweaks like this  per-list?).

Scot


Scot Hacker wrote:

>FWIW, I found the command-line tools add_members and remove_members, 
>which allowed me to write a simple shell  script to manage subscribes  
>and unsubscribes by drawing from files. So we'll have  PHP forms for 
>subbing and unsubbing, which will write to new_subs.txt and 
>del_subs.txt. Then we just  run this shell script once per hour, and get 
>around the confirmations problem with cell phones (though I'm surprised 
>-- aren't there any other mailman lists out there with people subbing 
>their cell phones? you'd  think there would be a better way...)
>
>#!/bin/sh
># Add new subscribers to mailing list from text file
># Then remove subscribers from an unsub list
>
># Define location of subscribers text file:
>subfile="/home/username/listname_newsubs.txt"
>
># Define location of unsub file:
>unsubfile="/home/username/listname_delsubs.txt"
>
>
>
># Add all addresses in the sub file
>/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/add_members -w y -a y -r $subfile list_domain.com
>
># Now  blank the file for future additions
>echo "" > $subfile
>
># Unsub all addresses in the unsub file
>/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/bin/remove_members -n -f $unsubfile list_domain.com
>
># Now  blank the file for future additions
>echo "" > $unsubfile
>
>
>Works great!
>
>
>Scot Hacker wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I have  a list  owner who runs a list designed to be subscribed to from 
>>text-messaging cell phones (list traffic consists only of  a daily haiku 
>>- very neat). People can use the web interface to sign up, but the 
>>confirmations are a problem. The subscription confirmation arrives at 
>>the phone, the user  replies to it, and then... nada. Seems to go into a 
>>bit bucket. I've confirmed that the ID cookie does make it across just fine.
>>
>>A little later, the list owner receives  a copy of the message below. 
>>At  first I thought there was  some discrepancy between the Return-Path: 
>>and the From: headers, but when I send a regular email from the phone to 
>>myself, they both come through fine, and match. I'm stumped.
>>
>>The list owner *really* wants to turn off confirmations altogether, but 
>>I don't see  any way to do this. Is  there one? If  confirmations 
>>absolutely can't be disabled, any ideas on why cell phone subscriptions 
>>fail, or  what  can be  done about it?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Scot
>>
>>
>>*From: *mailman-bounces at tinywords.com
>>*Date: *May 2, 2005 9:51:59 PM PDT
>>*To: *Haiku-owner at tinywords.com
>>*Subject: Uncaught bounce notification
>>*
>>The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce
>>format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted
>>    
>>
>>from it. This mailing list has been configured to send all
>  
>
>>unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s).
>>
>>For more information see:
>>http://tinywords.com/mailman/admin/haiku_tinywords.com/bounce
>>
>>*
>>From: *5102925586 at vtext.com
>>*Date: *May 2, 2005 9:51:54 PM PDT
>>*To: *Haiku-bounces at tinywords.com
>>*Subject: confirm f9bc6456b89ec9c10360aaa140411e154f0ff60b
>>*
>>
>>Want to subscribe to tinywords? Please reply to this message
>>
>>
>>
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