Mailman / One-Click Unsubscribe
Hi all,
we are using mailman as a newsletter-system for several customers and would like to implement a "one click unsubsribe" - each mail should contain a user-specific link for unsubscribing the user.
The problem is that we have legal requirements (and fairly "unexperienced users") that force us to set up a real "one click" system - the standard webpage for unsubscribing from mailman is a little to complicated (as you still have to read some text..:-)
I read in the archives that there was a short discussion about that in 2004, but that, unfortunately, did not really help me.
First of all - is there anybody who already implemented that and is willing to share his/her ideas upon that?
If there's no "ready-to-run"-solution for our problem, could please anyone give me a hint on how to do that?
We could of cource set up a php or python-based website that can pass commands to the shell-interface of mailman, but how do we secure that, so that it's not possible to unsubscribe anyone from the list?
Or are there any other strategies you have thought about?
Thanks a lot for any advice/ideas;
André
André wrote:
we are using mailman as a newsletter-system for several customers and would like to implement a "one click unsubsribe" - each mail should contain a user-specific link for unsubscribing the user.
I'm sure you recognize that this precludes digests as digests currently can't be personalized.
The problem is that we have legal requirements (and fairly "unexperienced users") that force us to set up a real "one click" system - the standard webpage for unsubscribing from mailman is a little to complicated (as you still have to read some text..:-)
I don't know if this will satisfy your requirement or not, but you could construct a mailto: link in the msg_footer. e.g.,
Unsubscibe - mailto:%(real_name)s-request@%(host_name)s?subject=unsubscribe%%20%(user_password)s%%20address=%user_address)s
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Hi Andre,
I've implemented something similar - email me off-list if you want the scripts.
Bob
André wrote:
Hi all,
we are using mailman as a newsletter-system for several customers and would like to implement a "one click unsubsribe" - each mail should contain a user-specific link for unsubscribing the user.
The problem is that we have legal requirements (and fairly "unexperienced users") that force us to set up a real "one click" system - the standard webpage for unsubscribing from mailman is a little to complicated (as you still have to read some text..:-)
I read in the archives that there was a short discussion about that in 2004, but that, unfortunately, did not really help me.
First of all - is there anybody who already implemented that and is willing to share his/her ideas upon that?
If there's no "ready-to-run"-solution for our problem, could please anyone give me a hint on how to do that?
We could of cource set up a php or python-based website that can pass commands to the shell-interface of mailman, but how do we secure that, so that it's not possible to unsubscribe anyone from the list?
Or are there any other strategies you have thought about?
Thanks a lot for any advice/ideas;
André
Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/bob%40nleaudio.com
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This is something the XMLRPC patch previously submitted could help with.
-jag
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:20 -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote:
Hi Andre,
I've implemented something similar - email me off-list if you want the scripts.
Bob
André wrote:
Hi all,
we are using mailman as a newsletter-system for several customers and would like to implement a "one click unsubsribe" - each mail should contain a user-specific link for unsubscribing the user.
The problem is that we have legal requirements (and fairly "unexperienced users") that force us to set up a real "one click" system - the standard webpage for unsubscribing from mailman is a little to complicated (as you still have to read some text..:-)
I read in the archives that there was a short discussion about that in 2004, but that, unfortunately, did not really help me.
First of all - is there anybody who already implemented that and is willing to share his/her ideas upon that?
If there's no "ready-to-run"-solution for our problem, could please anyone give me a hint on how to do that?
We could of cource set up a php or python-based website that can pass commands to the shell-interface of mailman, but how do we secure that, so that it's not possible to unsubscribe anyone from the list?
Or are there any other strategies you have thought about?
Thanks a lot for any advice/ideas;
André
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