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Is there a good location to help me figure out how to subscribe people to a mailing list? I have created a mailing list but am unsure of what all of the features mean and how I can automate things. I am looking for a good manual to help me figure this one out. Any pointers would be muchly apreciated.

 

Hi, assuming you create a mailing list with the address announce@domain.com, users can subscribe by sending an email to announce-subscribe@domain.com and unsubscribe by sending to announce-unsubscribe@servergrid.com.  You can automate this by generating these emails from your code, using a From address of the user you are subscribing or unsubscribing.  Detailed descriptions of the features available can be found here:

http://servergrid.com/manual/mailing_lists.html

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Below is some ASP.NET C# code you can use to control your mailing lists.




using System.Net.Mail;

/// <summary>
/// Sends mail to specified list
/// </summary>
/// <param name="emailAddress"></param>
private bool SendToServergridLists(string mailToAddress, string mailFromAddress)
{
    // Sending to the lists is easy.
    // If you are having people subscribe/unsubscribe via
    // web forms, make sure that you have the
    // subscribe witout confirmation and unsubscribe without confirmation
    // boxes checked in the properties of your mailing list
    // in H-SPHERE. Also, you will probably want to enable sending
    // from the mailing list address.
    //
    // this example can be used in any case, to subscribe, unsubscribe,
    // or send to the list



    // set mail server
    SmtpClient cli = new SmtpClient("localhost");        // define the mail server
                                                        // if you are on Servergrid
                                                        // use localhost

    MailMessage myMessage= new MailMessage();            // Create a new Mail Message object
    myMessage.IsBodyHtml = false;                        // This isn't necessary

    try
    {
        // set the message properties

        // the TO will change depending on your intention
        // to subscribe, you want your TO address to be myList-subscribe@whateveryourdomainis.xx
        // your FROM should be the address you want added to the list
        // to unsubscribe, you want your TO address to be myList-unsubscribe@whateveryourdomainis.xx
        // your FROM should be the address you want removed from the list
        // to send an email to the people on the list you want your TO and FROM to be myList@whateveryourdomainis.xx

        myMessage.To.Add(new MailAddress(mailToAddress));    
        myMessage.From = new MailAddress(mailFromAddress);            
        myMessage.Body = string.Format("This is the message body");
        myMessage.Subject = "This is the message subject";

        // These next lines are essential to sending a message TO your list from a page

        // add a header describing the sending agent
        myMessage.Headers.Add("User-Agent", "ASP.NET");                                

        // define the sender, this is different than "From"
        myMessage.Sender = new MailAddress(mailFromAddress);

        // set the encoding for the message
        myMessage.BodyEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;
        myMessage.SubjectEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;

        cli.Send(myMessage);
    }
    catch (SmtpException stmpExp)
    {
        throw new Exception("Mail send failed due to smtp error: " + stmpExp.Message);
    }
    catch (Exception exp)
    {
        throw new Exception("Send failed : " + exp.Message);
    }

    myMessage.Dispose();

    return true;
}

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I have created a mailing list, now i dont want everyone to reply to the list and then it gets duplicated all over again.

Specify which email addresses can use the mailing list, and prevent any other.

The documentation at the following link will assist you with that. 

http://www.servergrid.com/manual/mailing_lists.html

 

Rhizomes:

I have created a mailing list, now i dont want everyone to reply to the list and then it gets duplicated all over again.

Specify which email addresses can use the mailing list, and prevent any other.

If you want to prevent new members from signing up without approval, the option to enable at the URL Brenda provided is "Subscription moderation" , or if you want to approve each individual message, enable both "Do not restrict posts based on SENDER address" and "Message moderation"

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