[Mailman-Users] subscribing by email

[Mark Sapiro]

Alan Rubin wrote:
>
>We have a customer who would like to use a form on a website to
>subscribe people to a mailing list.  In theory, the form would email the
>details the list-join address of the list.


Unduly complicated. See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/hIA9>.

But, since you ask, read on...


>I have tried following the
>instructions from the members' manual:
>
>subscribe [<PASSWORD>] [digest-nodigest] [address=<ADDRESS>]
>Subscribe to this mailing list. Your password must be given to
>unsubscribe or change your options, but
>if you omit the password, one will be generated for you. You may be
>periodically reminded of your
>password.
>The next argument may be either: 'nodigest' or 'digest' (no quotes!). If
>you wish to subscribe an address
>other than the address you sent this request from, you may specify
>'address=<ADDRESS>' (no brackets
>around the email address, and no quotes!)
>
>I am testing this process with a test list using the following email:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Rubin 
>Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 1:46 PM
>To: 'test-join at lists.nt.gov.au'
>Subject: 
>
>subscribe nodigest address=adam.smith at nt.gov.au


You can't send a generic subscribe command to to the -join or
-subscribe address. The subject/body of mail to those addresses are
ignored and they just request subscription of the From: address with
generated password and default digest/nodigest.

If you want to send a subscribe command as above in the subject or body
of the mail, you have to send it to the -request address.

But that isn't the reason for the following.


>but my attempts keep getting shunted (tried twice, first without a
>digest option):
>
>
>Feb 17 13:46:20 2009 (1046) Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 114, in
>_oneloop
>    self._onefile(msg, msgdata)
>  File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/Runner.py", line 185, in
>_onefile
>    keepqueued = self._dispose(mlist, msg, msgdata)
>  File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 241,
>in _dispose
>    res.do_command('join')
>  File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Queue/CommandRunner.py", line 139,
>in do_command
>    return handler.process(self, args)
>  File "/export/home/mailman/Mailman/Commands/cmd_subscribe.py", line
>74, in process
>    if digest is None and password.lower() in ('digest', 'nodigest'):
>AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower'
>
>Feb 17 13:46:20 2009 (1046) SHUNTING:
>1234844179.158844+4d54d8a83f98a957ccff205953e10afbc0a9eecd
>
>
>Any help?  Am I missing a step?  This is somewhat urgent, if anyone is
>still awake in the West.


This was a bug in the 2.1.10 release. See
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-announce/2008-April/000111.html>
for a patch, but the irony here is if you had sent the mail to
test-request at lists.nt.gov.au, it would have worked and not triggered
the bug.

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