What will we need to do? Unsubscribe/resubscribe or just reply to the
authentication(s)?
bp
On 9/29/2014 6:20 PM, Paul McCall via Af wrote:
Guys,
As some of you are aware, PDMNet's behind the scenes management of the
AFMUG list as a service to Chuck McCown and his companies, involves
hosting on an Amazon server. Some very good things have come from
that decision so far... no mail delivery issues (no server issues, no
blacklisting or greylisting issues etc. to our knowledge). The EC2 /
SES platform is very robust, though overly complex at first blush. A
lot more time went to getting this setup that we anticipated, but
that's life. It costs a little more to use this platform, (I know..
I know) but long term, I think we will be happy with it.
One of the differences is the way the headers are handled. Out of the
box, Amazon required us to "munge" the headers in such a way that we
could customize them to meet Amazon's strict mass-emailing rules.
This causes some differences in the way the mail is delivered, causing
a few of you who use a different type of threading than most of us,
some grief. We are way PAST the discussion about what is "right"
etc. Respectfully, lets move on from that "debate".
The only way that Amazon provides to do things in a more conventional
email header fashion is to use their API. We knew this was an option
when we brought the list live, but also anticipated a bit of a
learning curve. And, indeed it was!
We have gotten comfortable with the API and have been running it on
our test Mailman list internally. Basically the API allows us /
requires us to process each AFMUG subscriber as an authenticated /
confirmed email address. Soooo.... In order to use the API, we need
to authenticate all the current users of the list. We can send a
batch through the API to generate the confirmation email to everyone,
but before I did it, I wanted to give you a heads up. NEW subscribers
will first join the mailman AFMUG group and once confirmed, will then
get an Amazon confirmation immediately thereafter. Unsubscribing will
also remove you from an authenticated user for the list.
Assuming that we haven't overlooked something (and, I am sure you guys
will let me know that, LOL ) I would like to give a 48 hour notice
that we will make the change, and you will get the Amazon email after
that window.
All in favor ? All opposed?
Paul McCall, Pres.
PDMNet / Florida Broadband
658 Old Dixie Highway
Vero Beach, FL 32962
772-564-6800 office
772-473-0352 cell
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