I think we're saying the same things, it's just that the mailman  
terminology has us confused.

"Allowed sender" on our side means mailman's "subscribed but no mail"

We consider the term "subscribed" to mean that you are actively  
receiving mail from the list, not that you are a member of it.
Being an allowed sender means exactly that, you are allowed to send  
messages to the list, but you are not receiving mail.

Rob is right in his other email where he mentioned that simply  
subscribing and then unsubscribing has this effect, even though we  
don't explicitly mention it in the ui. You can check the status of all  
members of the list by navigating to the manage membership view, which  
shows you which members are subscribed and which are only allowed  
senders.

But users don't need to explicitly subscribe/unsubscribe to become an  
allowed sender. This happens naturally when they first send out a  
message. If they send an email, they are asked to confirm, and then  
become allowed senders when they confirm (assuming a public list). All  
subsequent messages go through without confirmation. If they post ttw,  
they automatically become an allowed sender.

HTH,
Robert

On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Emanuel Sartor wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, Robert. I might have not been clear about what  
> I want
> though. I'll try to clarify. What I want is to have an option for  
> users to
> disable mail delivery to their email accounts while they are still  
> subscribed
> to a list. In that case they won't need to confirm their email  
> address because
> their are already subscribed.
>
> For example, the lists in sourceforge have this feature. I am  
> subscribed to a
> couple of lists so I can post there, but the emails never get to my  
> inbox.
> Instead I use a news client application to read emails posted on  
> those lists.
>
> Emanuel
>
>
> On 2008-02-21 19:25, Robert Marianski wrote:
>> That feature should already be in there.
>>
>> If somebody new sends a message to a mailing list, then will get an
>> email back asking to confirm their email address. Once they do, the
>> message goes through, and they become an "allowed sender". If they
>> post something through the web, they automatically become an allowed
>> sender.
>>
>> Members can toggle their membership state by viewing the mailing  
>> list,
>> or sending a message to the list with "unsubscribe" in the subject.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> On Feb 21, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Emanuel Sartor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I am using listen 0.5b1 with Plone 2.5.2 and I'd like to allow
>>> people subscribed to a the listen list (Members List type) to be
>>> able configure whether they want to receive email or not. ie, some
>>> people want to be subscribed and able to sent emails to a list, but
>>> only read emails using the web interface. Do you know of anything
>>> like that already implemented? If not, any pointer on where should I
>>> start looking at to implement this?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Emanuel
>>>
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