[ mailman-Feature Requests-1269067 ] e-mail command confirmations should be optional

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Feature Requests item #1269067, was opened at 2005-08-24 20:09
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
Submitted By: Daniel (doolyo)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: e-mail command confirmations should be optional

Initial Comment:
When we send an e-mail to change the member's 
options with a command (e.g. to subscribe/unsubscribe 
members), the confirmation of the commands should be 
optionnal.

This is useful particularly if we do a php script that 
sends the commands automatically from a post field. 
Then the member doesn't need to see all those e-mail 
commands.

This should be an optional command that would disable 
these confirmations for the whole list and all commands.

www.Sympa.org mailing list does this very well.

Thank you.
Daniel

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>Comment By: Daniel (doolyo)
Date: 2005-11-09 09:51

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Ok, thank you for that information, it works now.
I understand your concern, and allowing free subscriptions 
from only certain hosts would be an idea of new feature 
request. It's my case where it's always the server that send 
an e-mail to mailman to subscribe people. It is a bit more 
difficult for people to use my script by spoofing it, and I can 
prevent more than 3 e-mails per day per IP address if really 
needed.


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Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Date: 2005-11-09 01:28

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I'm moving this to "Feature Requests" as it is not a bug.

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Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Date: 2005-11-04 01:24

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In general, I think this is a bad idea because it allows
anyone to subscribe anyone else to a list by spoofing their
email address in an email command.

If you really want to open up subscribing without
confirmation, that feature is already available. Put

 ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE = Yes

in mm_cfg.py and lists will have a None option for
subscribe_policy which will allow subscribe without
confirmation.

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Comment By: moshe weitzman (weitzman)
Date: 2005-11-03 14:05

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I too need this. Thanks.

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