[Mailman-Users] 2nd Question: BypassingConfirmation/Approval for New Subscribers

[Mike Ewall]

Mark,

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

I did understand what you meant the first time, but I didn't realize that 
-- at least on my web host -- the list name is the full 
"listname_domain.name" (I originally tried your suggestion with only the 
listname, which apparently is why it was considered an unknown list).

I got it to work after you inspired me to look more closely at the URIs 
that Mailman uses.

Many thanks!

Mike

At 04:35 PM 12/20/2004, you wrote:
>Mike Ewall wrote:
> >
> >I tried out the wget method mentioned below, but it doesn't seem to work
> >for me either.  Trying them through a browser gives me a "CGI script error"
> >stating "Error: No such list [listname]."  Trying the commands while SSH'd
> >into the server gives errors as well.
> >
> >Any idea why the wget methods described in the thread earlier this month
> >(http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-December/041209.html)
> >wouldn't work?
>
>The part of the URI to the left of the "?" in e.g.
>
>http://[domain.name]/mailman/admin/[listname]/members/add?subscribees=[user_email_address]&adminpw=[admin_password]&send_welcome_msg_to_this_batch=0&send_notifications_to_list_owner=0
>
>should be exactly the same as the URI of the Membership
>Management...->Mass Subscription page in your web admin interface for
>the list. Is that the case in your tests? Also, the "[" and "]" around
>the domain.name, listname, user email address and admin password are
>to indicate that these are "variables". They are not literally
>included in the URI.
>
>If what you tried is "correct" with these things in mind, then I have
>no idea why it doesn't work. When I do it, it returns the Mass
>Subscription page with a Successfully subscribed indication for [user
>email address].
>
>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan