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Re: Convert Forum to Mail List

Posted by GregChapman on Jun 18, 2012; 10:39pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Convert-Forum-to-Mail-List-tp7580384p7580393.html

Hi Hugo,
Hugo <Nabble> wrote
I looked again at the code and it is simpler than I thought. That "Subscribe Members" tab is not tied to any particular group, so you can certainly use it with the "Shareholder" group.  The code basically lists all unsubscribed users that can view the current app, and it doesn't matter if they are registered or not.
That doesn't appear fully accurate, because the address you registered yourself appears under the "Subscribe Members" tab but registered users do not have "View" permission. I assume that address of your has "super powers"?
Hugo <Nabble> wrote
So here is what you should do for new users:
1) Go to the "Manage users & groups" page and add the email(s) to the Shareholder group;
2) Go to the "Manage subscribers / Subscribe Members" tab and subscribe the emails you added in step #1.
It seems I did the right things yesterday, but there are still issues I haven't been able to resolve. (Yesterday, I did fail to recognise that users in the "Members" group would not appear under the "Subscribe Members" tab because they do not have View permission. However, you've now clarified that point. The outstanding issues are:

1. As reported yesterday, while I can select "GregTest" (an unregistered user and Shareholder) under the "Subscribe Members" tab, and he gets a "You've been subscribed, click link to unsubscribe" message, the name does not shift from from the "Subscribe Members" tab to the "Current Subscribers" tab and he does not receive messages posted via the Archive. (I suspect your code assumes he will be registered?)

2. When I unsubscribed my "GregChapman" user (registered, admin and a shareholder) from under the "Current Subscribers" tab, that user got a "You have been unsubscribed" mail and appeared under the "Subscribe Members" tab. However, on being resubscribed, that user switched back to the "Current Subscribers" tab (nothing wrong so far), but did not get a  "You've been subscribed, click link to unsubscribe" message. That seems inconsistent with Issue #1.
EDIT: Issue #2 resolved. The "You've been subscribed" message has arrived!
After clicking on the "Subscribe Members" button, those users should show up as "subscribed" on the first tab. I tried that with an unregistered account and it worked fine. Please note that step #1 is needed because the system must recognize that user as someone who can view the current app.
The above represents issue #3. As an unregistered address has no View permission How did they appear on the "Subscribe Members" tab for them to be subscribed? (Perhaps this is another "super-power user" of yours?)
GregChapman wrote
Another thought: Will addresses that could show under "Subscribe Members" disappear from that tab once they appear under "Current Subscribers", so there is no possibility attempting to subscribe a user who is already subscribed.
Yes, that's correct. If the user is subscribed, it will not be listed on the "Subscribe Members" tab.
As noted above, that seems to be working (with limitations) [EDIT: As noted above: Limitations resolved!] for my admin address, but not my test user address.

I confess that I haven't tried posting further messages today as I thought we needed to get issues 1-3 resolved first.

As an aside, when we've sorted the issues with the "Subscribe Members" tab, I would propose that the standard tab "Add Subscribers" should be renamed "Invite Subscribers" (It's there as a sub-heading already!) as that is the true function of the original tab. That would then allow the new "Subscribe Members" tab to be renamed to its true function "Add Subscribers".
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