[Mailman-Users] Re confirming subscriptions

[Duncan Gordon]

I think ill use the original idea of mass delete mass subscribe.

I just need to make sure that the subscribtion email is nice and neat..

Thanks
DG

On 9/26/06, Patrick Bogen <pdbogen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/26/06, Duncan Gordon <duncan at gordon.co.za> wrote:
> > I can however ask my service provider to change the code for me...
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> There are probably several ways to do it. Some that come to mind are:
>
> (1) Adding a new state value to subscriptions for 'unconfirmed,' and
> then adding the appropriate infrastructure (e.g., to the web interface
> and/or the email command processor) for uses to confirm. (This is
> probably fairly difficult/complex)
>
> (2) Setting all users to delivery disabled, and sending out an email
> informing them that they need to 'reconfirm' by reenabling delivery
> (with instructions) (This may not be as 'neat' as you want, but
> doesn't actually require code changes, just the use of command-line
> utilities)
>
> P.s., please make sure to reply on-list, so that other, more
> knowledgable people, can weigh in, as well.
>
> --
> - Patrick Bogen
>



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