On 02/25/2014 06:15 AM, Michael Young wrote:
I know why allowing subscriptions without either a confirmation email or a moderator approval is a Dangerous Thing, but is there a way to get MM to allow it?
For user subscriptions, you need to set Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_policy to None. If the None radio button doesn't appear, you need to set
ALLOW_OPEN_SUBSCRIBE = Yes
in mm_cfg.py. Alternatively, you can set the list's subscribe_policy to zero using withlist or config_list.
Our list subscriptions are mostly generated by our lab/tool management software in response to a user getting qualified to use a piece of equipment, and I don't want users to have a choice in this case - they get subscribed, period. (They can later unsubscribe of course, but that means they have to actually do something :)
Depending on how the lab/tool management software actually subscribes the users, the above may not be needed or even work. Obviously, whatever you are doing now results in a confirmation request, but there are other ways. See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/uIA9, and/or the archived post at https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-December/041214.html
Or the software could just generate an input file for Mailman's bin/add_members which could be invoked either directly by the software or via a wrapper like the members.c wrapper attached to the above FAQ if necessary for permissions, or the add_members process could be just run periodically by cron.
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