Ability to set nomail on initial subscription

Bug #899344 reported by Josh Triplett
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Bug Description

I frequently find myself subscribing to a list for the sole purpose of ensuring I can post to that list, since it only allows posting from members. I often read those (high-volume) lists via the archives only, as well as threads that CC me. Thus, I want to set the nomail flag. Often I end up doing so for multiple subscriptions to the same list with a few different email addresses.

Currently, the process for doing that looks something like this: Type in my name and email address, hit subscribe, wait for confirmation mail, confirm subscription, wait for subscription confirmation mail, go back to web form, copy/paste password, log in, check nomail, delete the handful of unwanted emails that arrived in the meantime. Repeat for every list I want to subscribe to, and every email address I want to post from.

I'd like to have a way to set the "nomail" flag right from the subscription form. That would simplify the process significantly; I'd still have to confirm the subscription, but I wouldn't need to bother logging in and setting the flag, and I wouldn't receive unwanted emails from high-volume lists.

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Josh Triplett (joshtriplett) wrote :

Any thoughts on this bug?

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 899344] Re: Ability to set nomail on initial subscription

On Sep 03, 2012, at 03:32 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:

> I frequently find myself subscribing to a list for the sole purpose of
> ensuring I can post to that list, since it only allows posting from
> members. I often read those (high-volume) lists via the archives
> only, as well as threads that CC me. Thus, I want to set the nomail
> flag. Often I end up doing so for multiple subscriptions to the same
> list with a few different email addresses.

I think this feature request is only appropriate for Mailman 2, where each
individual subscription is completely disconnected from all your other
subscriptions on the system. Mailman 3 would do it very differently,
although some of the concepts still apply.

From the UI side, I see things working very differently, and I think this is
mostly a UI issue. It's possible we could add something in MM3 for the email
subscription interface though.

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