[Mailman-Users] Confirmation "Cookie" Content

[Mark Sapiro]

Webb, Stevenwrote:
>
>We are looking into using another system outside of Mailman, such as
>Lyris, to send broadcast emails to invite users to our mailman lists.
>We'd like to include the URL to confirm their subscription in our
>emails, but I can't find any information about how the confirmation
>value is generated.  We'd need to be able either to generate the value
>ourselves outside of Mailman, or figure out a way to dump a list of
>email addresses needing confirmation with the confirmation value.


You can't generate the cookie outside of Mailman. It is essentially
random.

See <http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/list_pending> (mirrored at
<http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/list_pending> and
<http://fog.ccsf.edu/~msapiro/scripts/list_pending>) for a way to dump
the pending requests.


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