RE: [Mailman-Users] Stop the Confirmation E-Mail
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Jon wrote:
This may be slightly off this particular topic, but I run several mailman lists with the options: o) Administrator approval is required for all subscriptions o) No confirmation is required for subscriptions
These are relatively "closed" communities of nontechnical people, where the administrator has tight connections to the subscribers and there is some "offline" or "unstructured" confirmation that occurs outside of Mailman itself.
The problem I've been having is that there doesn't seem to be a way for the LIST ADMIN to change a subscriber's e-mail address without a confirmation (unless one goes through a subscribe/unsubscribe which risks changing user options and the user password). For these particular communities we really do not want confirmation required -- and if it's not required for the initial subscription, why is it required for the address change?
Or am I missing something?
Thanks!
-Nancy [Mailman "user" in the sense of list administrator -- I've no control over the installation. Mailman version 2.1.1]
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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:19, Nancy S wrote:
That's a nice feature and a good justification for it. I'll forward that along to the MMv3 list and see if folks like it.
It almost trivial to write a command line tool that would change an email address inside the list database. The harder part will be adding it to the Admin's web form.
Jon Carnes
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Jon Carnes <jonc@nc.rr.com> wrote:
It almost trivial to write a command line tool that would change an email address inside the list database.
I apologize for replying to an old thread, but it seems to me that your trivial tool already exists: ;-)
clone_member -l list -r old-address new-address
Regards, Zoran
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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:23, Jon Carnes wrote:
I've had the same frustration, and I agree that a list admin should have a convenient way to change a user's email address without a confirmation dance.
-Barry
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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 10:19, Nancy S wrote:
That's a nice feature and a good justification for it. I'll forward that along to the MMv3 list and see if folks like it.
It almost trivial to write a command line tool that would change an email address inside the list database. The harder part will be adding it to the Admin's web form.
Jon Carnes
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Jon Carnes <jonc@nc.rr.com> wrote:
It almost trivial to write a command line tool that would change an email address inside the list database.
I apologize for replying to an old thread, but it seems to me that your trivial tool already exists: ;-)
clone_member -l list -r old-address new-address
Regards, Zoran
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On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 11:23, Jon Carnes wrote:
I've had the same frustration, and I agree that a list admin should have a convenient way to change a user's email address without a confirmation dance.
-Barry
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Barry Warsaw
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Jon Carnes
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Nancy S
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Zoran Dzelajlija