On 09/09/2014 08:03 AM, James Nightly wrote: > Somehow I managed to remove unsubscribe footer in my mailing list. Is > it possible to append to all lists instructions on how to unsubscribe? > I'm hoping subscribers can send 'remove' email to an address and get > removed from the list automatically.
You can put things like Unsubscribe: <mailto:%(list_name)s-unsubscribe@%(host_name)s> and Unsubscribe: <%(web_page_url)s/options/%(list_name)s> in Non-digest options - msg_footer and Digest options - digest_footer. Potential issues with this are: 1. These things are included in text/plain message parts and may or may not render as 'clickable links' depending on the user's mail client. 2. Due to forwarding and other issues, the users may not receive list mail at their subscribed address and may not even know it. 3. Either mailing the -unsubscribe address or going to the options URL, filling in one's email address and clicking unsubscribe results in a confirmation email being sent to the user which requires a affirmative action before the user is actually unsubscribed. If the list is personalized, you can put in msg_footer things like Unsubscribe: <%(user_optionsurl)s?login-unsub=1> to avoid issue 2, or even Unsubscribe: <%(user_optionsurl)s?password=%(user_password)s&login-unsub=1> (all on one line) to avoid both 2 and 3, although including the user's password in this footer is generally a bad idea both because users will complain about their list password being emailed in plain text and users will not remove the quoted link when forwarding or replying, thus exposing their passwords. Note you can't put the personalizations in digest_footer because digests are never personalized. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
