[Mailman-Users] set up HTML form to feed into Mailman

Thu Aug 14 18:35:04 CEST 2008

Dave,

You mean instead of using the python driven web form that comes with
mailman?

You can create a front-end to the existing subscription processes using
an html form that collects the necessary parameters and submits them to
mailman via the form's ACTION=<your mailman url/LISTNAME>.

Here are the required params:
email, fullname, pw, pw-conf (confirmed...same as pw), digest,
email-button

Here's a super-simple example:

<html>
<head>
<title>Subscribe to List</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action=http://yourmailman.server.com/mailman/subscribe/listname
method=post>
Email: <input name=email type=text><br>

Full Name: <input name=fullname type=text><br>

Password: <input name=pw type=password><br>
Confirm: <input name=pw-conf type=password><br>

Digest: <select name=digest>
<option value=1>Yes</option>
<option value=0>No</option>
</select>

<input type=submit name=email-button value=Submit>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Keep in mind - you'll probably want to implement or write a cgi script
to verify some of the input fields and scrub the data... and verify that
the pw matches pw-conf... but it's a start.

I wrote a script that allows folks to subscribe remotely from command
line on a unix/linux server as long as they have cURL installed... will
forward that along if anybody's interested. 

Here's the important line from the script.  The $VARS are collected from
the stdin or prompted.

curl -s
$MAILMANURL/${LIST}?email=${UEMAIL}&fullname=$FIRSTNAME%20$LASTNAME&pw=$
PW&pw-conf=$PW&digest=0&email-button=Submit

YMMV.

Rgds,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: mailman-users-bounces+michael_lynn=ml.com at python.org
[mailto:mailman-users-bounces+michael_lynn=ml.com at python.org] On Behalf
Of Dave Briggs
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:02 PM
To: Mailman-Users at python.org
Subject: [Mailman-Users] set up HTML form to feed into Mailman

Hi all

How hard would it be to create an HTML form for a website which could  
be used to subscribe people to a list, rather than using the one on  
the mailman site for the list?

Thanks

Dave Briggs
db at davepress.net | www.davepress.net | 07525 209589

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