Re: Manually adding Subscribers to an ezmlm list

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ezmlm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daren Sabin <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]

Mr. Brady answered your other question, but I'll note:

> Also, could a perl script or something running on a daily cron job do the
> trick to pull a list of new users to the site to be subscribed to the list?

I assume you mean a list taken from a webserver.  There's actually a better
way; if you have a web form for people to sign up, and you're just recording
their addresses in this file that you want to "pull", do it this way instead:

Have your web form (or a script that process the test file) simply send a
completely blank email to the ezmlm subscription address.  i.e., if your list
is "[email protected]", and someone puts "martin@internal" into the form, just
have your script send a blank mail message to
[email protected].

This means you're not losing the advantage of ezmlm's subscription forgery
prevention.  If you just use ezmlm-sub, you completely lose that advantage,
and open your mailing list up to abuse.

Charles
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