On 3/14/22 18:36, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 3/14/22 09:18, IEM Network Operation Center (IOhannes m zmölnig) wrote:
this is with "Postorius Version 1.2.4" (as installed by the mailman3 Debian package).
The Debian packages are OK for people who want to install things via a package manager, but they are quite out of date.
i know. the problem is, that right now i have a running (Debian-based, thus outdated) mailman3 installation, and I still haven't found a proper strategy to upgrade and keep staying up-to-date. so for the time being i'm stuck with what i have.
Something like the following in
mailman shellcan do it.
thanks a lot.
afaiu, this snippet allows me to purge outdated pending subscriptions.
modifying it slightly, also allows me to just list the pending subscriptions along with their tokens and print them out.
is it still possible to just use these tokens to confirm the pending subscription (even though it is long overdue)?
if so, i could just send out a reminder to those 50 or so people who have not confirmed yet.
while investigating this a bit, i also noticed that it seems that with mailman3 the only option to confirm a pending subscription is via email ("leaving the subject intact") - at least that is the only option that is listed in the confirmation mail.
now i would like to massage this into what i think is a bit more user-friendly. first of all: most email confirmation systems allow me to either "reply by email" or "click this link". is there a way to do this for mailman3? that is: is there a (hidden) URL that would accept the token in order to confirm a subscription?
also: the confirmation mail says that the subject must be kept intact. however, i noticed that the actual "From" address of the confirmation mail already contains the token. would it be enough if people just sent an email to this special email-address (that contains the token), regardless of the subject? i'm thinking of sending a rather personalized email that has a more attractive subject than "confirm flkdsajfsalkjflsajfsoisjdl".
finally: what else is required to approve the confirmation? will the sender's email-address be taken into account? (e.g. if they subscribed "foo+mylist@example.com" but send the confirmation-reply from "foo@example.com", will that still work?
sorry for so many questions. i *did* search the documentation, but simply haven't found anything that would help me. i've probably looked in the wrong places, but mailman3 is rather huge so it's easy to miss the imprtant parts.
gmdsa IOhannes