[Mailman-Developers] Mailman / One-Click Unsubscribe

[Joshua Ginsberg]

This is something the XMLRPC patch previously submitted could help with.

-jag

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:20 -0500, Bob Puff at NLE wrote:
> Hi Andre,
> 
> I've implemented something similar - email me off-list if you want the scripts.
> 
> Bob
> 
> André wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > we are using mailman as a newsletter-system for several customers and would 
> > like to implement a "one click unsubsribe" - each mail should contain a 
> > user-specific link for unsubscribing the user.
> > 
> > The problem is that we have legal requirements (and fairly "unexperienced 
> > users") that force us to set up a real "one click" system - the standard 
> > webpage for unsubscribing from mailman is a little to complicated (as you 
> > still have to read some text..:-)
> > 
> > I read in the archives that there was a short discussion about that in 
> > 2004, but that, unfortunately, did not really help me.
> > 
> > First of all - is there anybody who already implemented that and is willing 
> > to share his/her ideas upon that?
> > 
> > If there's no "ready-to-run"-solution for our problem, could please anyone 
> > give me a hint on how to do that?
> > 
> > We could of cource set up a php or python-based website that can pass 
> > commands to the shell-interface of mailman, but how do we secure that, so 
> > that it's not possible to unsubscribe anyone from the list?
> > 
> > Or are there any other strategies you have thought about?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for any advice/ideas;
> > 
> > André
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Joshua Ginsberg <jag at fsf.org>
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