On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, tascien@usa.net wrote:
> I want to add people to my list without requiring them to answer to a
> confirmation e-mail. What command can I use?
>
If you want them to be able to subscribe in one step, set the
subscribe_policy to open, not open+confirm. BE WARNED that this is not
secure since From: addresses can be spoofed so easily.
If you as the administrator want to subscribe people to a list without
asking them to take any action themselves, you have two choices:
Send the major pre-approved commands:
approve sekret subscribe listname Joe Blow <user@domain.org>
- note that this will still result in the user getting a copy of the
welcome message with intro file, if one is defined.
If you have shell access to the server, you can edit the list file
directly, in which case no welcome message will be sent out. If you do
not have shell access, and you wish to suppress the welcome messages, then
you must first edit the .config to set 'welcome = no', then send your
batch of pre-approved subscribes, then reset the .config to its normal
state. Realize that it's possible for a normal subscriber to sneak in
during this interval, and miss their welcome message as well. I would
suggest making sure that announcements = yes is set while welcome = no, so
that you'll detect this situation if it happens, and you can force the
welcome message to be sent by unsubscribing and subscribing the user
yourself after you've restored the normal .config file.
HTH,
--
Rick Green
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