Making "set delivery off" default for new users
Hello -- I imagine this is a strange request, but I'm wondering if it is possible to set the options of a new member with default of "set delivery off"?
E.g., if they are subscribing by email, would something like the following be possible:
To: list-request@domain.com From: myemail@address.com Subject: subscribe set delivery off
.... I tried it, and naturally it didn't work. But is something like this possible?
I'm making a list that will have an easy-to use web interface to access list archives, with mailman as the backend--but don't want people to get email from the list unless they abosultely want it; yet I want only subscribers to be able to post...
Thanks, Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe wrote:
Hello -- I imagine this is a strange request, but I'm wondering if it is possible to set the options of a new member with default of "set delivery off"?
No, there is no way to default delivery to 'off'.
E.g., if they are subscribing by email, would something like the following be possible:
To: list-request@domain.com From: myemail@address.com Subject: subscribe set delivery off
Actually, I think it might work, but only if the list allows fully open (no confirmation/no approval) subscribes because in order to set delivery off, you have to be a member and authenticate, so you might do
To: list-request@domain.com From: myemail@address.com Subject:
subscribe <password> set authenticate <password> set delivery off
but if the subscribe is waiting confirmation or approval, the set commands will fail. Also, you have to provide the password for the subscribe so you know what it is for the set authenticate.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Thanks Mark, I came to the same conclusion and have made a hack that might do the job (emphasis on "hack", not so much on the "might do the job"!) Members would sign up via a php form that later uses their username and password to set delivery off after they've confirmed. A little weird and maybe risky, but it's the easiest thing that came to mind.
Regards, Tom Wolfe
On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 20:57 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote:
Tom Wolfe wrote:
Hello -- I imagine this is a strange request, but I'm wondering if it is possible to set the options of a new member with default of "set delivery off"?
No, there is no way to default delivery to 'off'.
E.g., if they are subscribing by email, would something like the following be possible:
To: list-request@domain.com From: myemail@address.com Subject: subscribe set delivery off
Actually, I think it might work, but only if the list allows fully open (no confirmation/no approval) subscribes because in order to set delivery off, you have to be a member and authenticate, so you might do
To: list-request@domain.com From: myemail@address.com Subject:
subscribe <password> set authenticate <password> set delivery off
but if the subscribe is waiting confirmation or approval, the set commands will fail. Also, you have to provide the password for the subscribe so you know what it is for the set authenticate.
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