- Jim Hodson (jimhodson@jenniferonsunday.com) wrote:
Hello, I am working on setting up a Mailman mailing list for our web site at http://www.jenniferonsunday.com. We are a band and already have many people on an exisiting list (done manually), which we want to migrate to Mailman. Our site is hosted by Webanimotion, and they have Mailman on their server for us.
Well that might restrict what you can do with mailman unless your good friends with them or done a few free shows for 'em. But some of the things your asking will need more than web-admin access.
- Send e-mail news updates to our list. We do not want users to be able to send to the list.
Check FAQ 3.11
The problem I've run into seems to revolve around the password, and the Welcome E-mail. The Welcome E-mail has a lot more information in it than we need. For instance, that e-mail tells users that they can post to the list, which I do not want them to be able to do. I know I can turn off the feature about sending them the Welcome E-mail, but then they won't have their password.
Change the template for the message in the templates/ dir.
Worse case scenerio (spelled right?), user wants to unsubscribe, they have to goto the web page and have the password emailed to them to unsubscribe.
I know thats not really the preferred method.
Also, when I migrate our current users to our Mailman list, I don't want them to know about the migration. However, if they don't get a Welcome E-mail, they also will not have a password, and will be unable to unsubscribe automatically.
You can also add text to the welcome messages in the General Options tab in the 'Notificaions' section (for MM2.1).
Is there a way to modify the Welcome E-mail (besides just the introduction to it)? Is there a way to avoid having to use a password to unsubscribe?
http://satya.virtualave.net/download.html#mailmanw
It requires perl and MySQL, so it might not be able to fit into your setup.
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