Daniel
I just want to make sure I'm reading you right. If I'm in IMail and I add
identical email addresses to both user.txt and user.lst without the '<>',
will the user being able to unsubscribe themselves? Or for the
self-unsubscribes to work, is it necessary to have the '<>'?
Thanks, Kevin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Daniel Donnelly
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] List Administration in Web Interface
>
>
> Todd,
>
> Actually it is an effect of the methods being used. If one
> decides to add
> users via the web, that is a different mode of operation from
> subscribing
> via email. The '<>' should have no effect on the sending of
> email to the
> list members. If one wants to allow users to unsubscribe
> themselves, then
> they need to subscribe themselves, or the admin must add the
> entries to both
> user.lst and user.txt and the latter cannot be done via the
> web interface.
> It is possible to use the same file for user.txt as is used
> for user.lst,
> but if this is done, the '<>' address form should be used for
> both. So that
> means you (at the console) could copy the file after the
> addresses are added
> via the web.
>
> Daniel Donnelly
> ________________________________________________________
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 5:16 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] List Administration in Web Interface
>
>
> > I noticed when I created a list in the web interface to
> play around with
> > before trying to explain to a customer how to use it, that
> when you add
> > users to the list in the web interface it subscribed them as
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and when a user subscribes to the list by
> sending an
> > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is just subscribes them as
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > I noticed this because I was able to accidentally
> subscribe the same
> > email list twice, once from the web interface, once from email.
> >
> > After looking at the users.lst and users.txt, the users.lst
> file has all
> > the users subscribed via the web interface with <>
> surrounding the name,
> > and all that subscribed from email do not.
> > Also, there are no entries in the users.txt file for the
> users that were
> > added via the web interface.
> >
> > This sounds like it could be a problem when it comes to
> un-subscribing, or
> > do any commands the would require validation of the email address.
> >
> > Is there a fix, or is this a known problem, or is it just me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Todd
> >
> >
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