[Mailman-Users] Subscribing users to list without approvals

Mark Sapiro msapiro at value.net
Wed Nov 2 23:47:12 CET 2005


Nelly Yusupova wrote:
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>I can not find the answer to the following question in the archives.  I set up a announce list with nelly at cgim.com as the owner of the list.  Using nelly at cgim.com as the sender, I send an email to listname-request at mydomain.com with the following command in the subject line:
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>subscribe PASSWORD EMAIL_OF_SUBSCRIBER nodigest
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>and the email comes back to me with the following:
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>Bad digest specifier: EMAIL_OF_SUBSCRIBER 


The proper command would be

subscribe SUBSCRIBER_PASSWORD nodigest address=SUBSCRIBER_EMAIL

order is important. But this won't do what you want no matter where the
mail originates. The subscriber will get a confirmation.


>Does anyone know how I can subscribe people to the list without ANY approvals (ie, if it's coming from the owner of the list, just subscribe the person to the list).


Yes. Use the mass subscribe feature on the web interface.

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