I sent an earlier message about list owner commands for subscribing, unsubsribing, etc. I do see now where I can prevent a approval message being sent to the subscriber. However, it looks like I will probably just make myself the owner and have the list owner send the subscribe and unsubscribe commands to the request address. I will initially set the password for everyone to be the same and the list owner will use that password for future subscriptions and unsubscriptions. I will end up doing the approving of all these requests.

However, I have another question about issuing email commands for subscribing. In the web interface, I can add information along with the email address, by using the syntax "Joe Blow"<joe.blow@anywhere.com>. If I issue this by email, Mailman chokes on it. Here is an example.

subscribe password address="Joe Blow"<joe.blow@anywhere.com>.

Mailman seems confused by brackets and quotes. Any ideas how to do this via email?

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Christopher Adams