Administratively subscribe other users via email
I'm sorry if this is a repeated question; but I've spent the last hour searching/reading faq's and not finding anything useful.
I'm creating a newsletter mailing list, which I've successfully done - now, I am trying to get my billing system to automatically add new customers to the mailing list.
The easiest way to do this would be to have my billing system send an email to mailman to subscribe the user.
However, I have as of yet been unable to locate any information on how to do so.
I've tried using the "Approved:" header with a subscribe command in the mail body, following the subscribe command syntax at http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node41.html, but the response back from mailman is that the commands remain unprocessed.
What is the correct syntax for doing this?
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Hello Nick Bright
On 2012-08-14 01:59, Nick Bright wrote:
I'm sorry if this is a repeated question; but I've spent the last hour searching/reading faq's and not finding anything useful.
I'm creating a newsletter mailing list, which I've successfully done - now, I am trying to get my billing system to automatically add new customers to the mailing list.
The easiest way to do this would be to have my billing system send an email to mailman to subscribe the user.
However, I have as of yet been unable to locate any information on how to do so.
I've tried using the "Approved:" header with a subscribe command in the mail body, following the subscribe command syntax at http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node41.html, but the response back from mailman is that the commands remain unprocessed.
What is the correct syntax for doing this?
Send an email with subject help and empty body to your ${listname}-request@${your.mailman.server}. You will get back a description of all commands supported by email.
Kind regards, Christian Mack
On 8/13/2012 4:59 PM, Nick Bright wrote:
The easiest way to do this would be to have my billing system send an email to mailman to subscribe the user.
However, I have as of yet been unable to locate any information on how to do so.
I've tried using the "Approved:" header with a subscribe command in the mail body, following the subscribe command syntax at http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node41.html, but the response back from mailman is that the commands remain unprocessed.
The Approved: header is ignored in this context. What remains unprocessed? If it is the subscribe command, there is something wrong with that command. If it is lines following the subscribe command, I suspect the command was processed and a confirmation was send to the address= address and the subscription is waiting confirmation from the user.
What is the correct syntax for doing this?
That described at <http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node41.html>.
However, that probably won't work for you because the Approved: header is ignored and the list's subscribe_policy is applied to the request.
See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/uIA9> for pointers to other ways to do what you want.
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