Kevin,
The user.txt must HAVE the '<>' and user.lst is a 'don't care which', so it
could have them, too, so that users can unsubscribe via email.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Coyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:32 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] List Administration in Web Interface
>
> 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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