On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 19:24, Healing-Oils.com wrote: > Won't this send a confirmation email to the user though? If the customer > indicates that they want to subscribe, and they provide their email address > on my website, then I would like to be able to have my website automatically > send off an email that will subscribe them. > > So is there any way to do this so that a confirmation email is not sent to > the end user?
See the previous thread "Stop the Confirmation E-Mail" for why this is a *very* Bad Idea: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-March/035429.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2004-March/035441.html A summary of the points raised: SMTP is trivial to forge, and abuse. There is nothing to stop malicious users subscribing all and sundry to your mailing list, thereby creating more spam. You'll probably (hopefully) end up being blacklisted by a few of the major DNSBL's - reducing the likelihood of any of your ML mail getting through at all. There are several anti-spam laws in the works that will *require* confirmation for mailing list subscription. It's just plain irresponsible behaviour. Read the thread for the full discussion. -j -- -jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | spamtrap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://silverdream.org | p: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key @ http://silverdream.org/~jps/pub.key 22:30:01 up 8:32, 1 user, load average: 0.51, 0.43, 0.28
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