Digest subscription without password
It seems somewhat strange that you can subscribe yourself to a list without a password, but in order to subscribe to a digest you are required to supply a password.
What would be the best way around this?
So far I have have got this to work with the -request, but only if I supply a password. It wil not work with -subscribe at all for digest mode. On the -request, if I supply a password, the user will have the digest bit set. If I do not set the password, the digest bit will not be set.
This is not working for me:
subscribe [$<$PASSWORD$>$] [digest|nodigest] [address=$<$ADDRESS$>$]
Subscribe to this mailing list. Your password must be given to unsubscribe or change your options, but if you omit >the password, one will be generated for you. You may be periodically reminded of your password.
The next argument may be either:
nodigest' ordigest' (no quotes!). If you wish to subscribe an address other than the address you sent this request from, you may specify `address=$<$ADDRESS$>$' (no brackets around the email address, and no quotes!)
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It seems somewhat strange that you can subscribe yourself to a list without a password, but in order to subscribe to a digest you are required to supply a password.
What would be the best way around this?
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Rob Jackson wrote:
So far I have have got this to work with the -request, but only if I supply a password. It wil not work with -subscribe at all for digest mode. On the -request, if I supply a password, the user will have the digest bit set. If I do not set the password, the digest bit will not be set.
This is not working for me:
subscribe [$<$PASSWORD$>$] [digest|nodigest] [address=$<$ADDRESS$>$]
This is a fundamental flaw in the design of the request. There is no syntactic way to tell whether
subscribe digest
is a request to subscribe in digest mode with a generated password or a request to subscribe in default mode with a password of 'digest'. Of course, we could disallow 'digest' and 'nodigest' as passwords and assume they must be modes, but no one has done that fix.
That's a problem in general with positional options.
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