On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 12:22:02 -0700 Cameron Smith <ccsmith@cetsi.com> wrote:
Oh my!
In an attempt to introduce a friend to MailMan3, I had her subscribe to a couple of lists that I set up and we exchanged a few messages via the email interface.
Then I introduced her to the web interface and we were both confused when she could not log-in/sign-in and was told that her email address was not recognized.
It was only later that I realized that while she was a subscriber, she hadn’t yet signed up for an account.
What is the point of “accounts"? Why can someone become a subscriber, but not have an account?
The frontend is purely optional when using Mailman 3. They (frontend and Core) are actually two separate systems which maintain their own user list.
If someone doesn't want to use the web interface, there is no account automatically generated for them there. You can interact with Mailman Core (the part that handles the emails) to subscribe/post to mailing lists.
You have to sign-up for a new account on the web interface if you want to manage your subscriptions through it.
I find the user/member/subscriber explanation at http://mailman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/mailman/docs/architecture.html to be very confusing.
That documentation is about the internal architecture of Mailman Core and would probably not be much useful to you as a user.
I can explain that to you if are still interested though, trying to avoid a whole lot of (maybe) unnecessary typing ;)
-- thanks, Abhilash Raj