Feature Req: Re-confirm subscription
If there is a way to do this, please let me know, I didn't see anything in the FAQ.
I also didn't see a 'bug/feature' tracking system link anywhere? Is there a bugzilla or anything for mailman?
Anyways, I have a suspicion that some of my lists' mails are not getting to their destinations. This could be that some people used their job email and no longer work there, could be that they are on AOL or hotmail (which seem to just silently discard), or could be just people that joined up and now 'junk mail or filter' the list because they're either to stupid or lazy to properly unsubscribe.
Bottom line is that I'm paying per emails sent (via my quota on DynDNS) and I want to unsubscribe these dead members.
It would be great if I could push a button in the web GUI (or run some command on the CLI) and mailman would reset every members status to 'unconfirmed' (or whatever it is), mail them a link to click (with some crazy code in it like when you join a list), and then mark the responders as 'confirmed'.
Then after some period of time, say a week or so, I could then go into the GUI, click some link and see a list of all 'unconfirmed' people with the option to unsubscribe them all (without sending an email obviously, since the address is bogus).
Extra points if I can schedule this task to occur every month, every six months, once a year, etc... (probably some 'day' interval would be sufficient here).
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At 3:21 PM -0700 2006-05-25, Daevid Vincent wrote:
I also didn't see a 'bug/feature' tracking system link anywhere? Is there a bugzilla or anything for mailman?
There's the Mailman Request for Feature Enhancements SourceForge
page at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=350103, and the SourceForge pages are linked from the Developer Resources page at http://www.list.org/devs.html.
Is that what you're looking for?
It would be great if I could push a button in the web GUI (or run some command on the CLI) and mailman would reset every members status to 'unconfirmed' (or whatever it is), mail them a link to click (with some crazy code in it like when you join a list), and then mark the responders as 'confirmed'.
There is no feature currently present in Mailman to accomplish
this goal, but it may not be hard to add. If you create a patch to provide this feature, please upload that to the SourceForge Patch page for Mailman at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103&atid=300103.
Creating your own code to implement such a feature and then
uploading the patch gives you a much higher probability that the patch may be incorporated into future versions -- otherwise, you're dependant on the core developers being able to take some of their non-existent free time to develop code to support your request.
Extra points if I can schedule this task to occur every month, every six months, once a year, etc... (probably some 'day' interval would be sufficient here).
Other than the monthly password reminder mailings (which will be
going away in the future), Mailman doesn't have any good internal process for managing periodic events like this. If you created Python code to implement your feature, you could put that into a cron job which would run monthly, or weekly, or whatever.
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