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After operating several mailman newsletters for several months, I just became aware that subscribers find unsubscribing a daunting task. They can not do it without their password and they don't know their password. They end up asking me, as list owner, to do it. I am looking for ways to make it easier for them. Newsletters go out about once a week and I do not wish to burden them with periodic password notification. With my previous maillist software, I just told my potential subscribers (and unsubscribers) to put "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in a message to <listname>-request@<domain>. That worked very well for me and I would like mailman to operate as simply. Here are the things I have thought of to deal with this mailman problem:
do away with all user passwords. The FAQ tells me that that is not possible currently.
set all user passwords to the same and then make it public. This seems to involve mailman configuration beyond my access. I am the client of a hosting service and do not have the site password and I don't expect my host to be willing to spend much time on the problem.
send the user password in reply to an unsuccessful unsubscribe or help request and then tell them what to do with it. Can anyone tell me how to do that?
reply to a confirmation email. It seems to me that the unsubscribe procedure could operate as simply and be as secure as the subscribe procedure. That is, in response to a unsubsribe email, a reply required confirmation email could be sent to the subscriber's address.
Is that feasible?Anyone have any other ideas?
A few months ago, I posted here queries on several configuration issues; replies allowed me to get my footers straightened out get html posts rejected. One outstanding issue is access to the subscriber lists. With my previous maillist, I was able to ftp to and from my subscriber lists. That gave me a sense of comfort, knowing that I was not completely dependent on my host. I realize I can cut and paste each batch of 30 subscribers from the administration web interface, but I find that pretty tedious. Help?
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Folks, this is an information list. None of us get any value if A person posts a question and every answer is OFF the list. Perhaps no one is getting answers?? Anyway, if you do get answers, please copy them to the list here so that we all can learn from them.
and for those of you gurus, please post your answers to the list FIRST and then offlist if you want.
thanks chas full of questions and no answers. also, getting dumber by the day.
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Folks, this is an information list. None of us get any value if A person posts a question and every answer is OFF the list. Perhaps no one is getting answers?? Anyway, if you do get answers, please copy them to the list here so that we all can learn from them.
and for those of you gurus, please post your answers to the list FIRST and then offlist if you want.
thanks chas full of questions and no answers. also, getting dumber by the day.
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