Membership Status
Defines whether this person is an active, normal member, meaning that they can participate in the mailing list and receive mail, or if their status is otherwise. The different statuses are:
Normal
An active member who may receive mail from the list.
Confirm
The person has requested to join this mailing list, but has not confirmed the subscription request by replying or clicking on a confirmation message.
Once the member has confirmed membership, the person's status will change to normal. Note that if the confirmation message is undeliverable, the member will be deleted.
Confirm-Failed
The person has requested to join this mailing list, but the confirmation message sent failed with a permanent, 500-level error. These errors are generally returned when the email address does not exist, but may also occur when the receiving mail server believes the confirmation message is spam and thus rejects it with a permanent error. To see which is the case, view the sending record for the confirmation message in Member: Edit Member: Information: View Mailings Attempted.
Private
The person has requested to join this mailing list, but because this is a privatemailing list, the request to join is pending list administrator approval.
When a mailing list is set to private, mailing list administrators who have Admin Mail set to Yes receive a short email notification message for each request to join the private mailing list.
Expired
The member had their membership set to expire on a certain date, and that date has passed, so this person's membership has expired and is no longer active.
Held
An undeliverable member. ListManager failed to deliver mail to this address the number of times specified in Utilities: List Settings: Automatic Maintenance: Error Mail: Bounce Limit.
A user may become "unheld" by replying to a held notification.
Unsubscribed
The member has opted out of the list. The member will not receive email, but is retained in the database for statistical reasons or in case the member decides to resubscribe.
Complaint
This member marked an email from this list as spam. The member is HELD-- i.e., no mail will go out to them.
Referred
The member was invited to join using a referral, but has not yet formally joined the list.
Needs-Confirm
The member will receive a message asking them to confirm membership, and then their status will be set to Confirm. Administrators may use this status when creating members to allow them to confirm their memberships.
Needs-Hello
The member will receive a message welcoming them to the list, and then their status will be Normal. Administrators may use this status when creating members to notify them they have been added.
Needs-Goodbye
The member will receive a message informing them they have left the list, and their status will be Unsubscribed. Administrators may use this status when unsubscribing members to notify them they have been removed.
Membership Kind
This choice defines how the member wants to receive messages from the mailing list. The choices are:
As soon as someone contributes a message to the mailing list, the user will receive a copy of that message.
Digest
Each night, the user will receive a single email message containing all the messages contributed to the mailing list that day in plain-text; all HTML and attachments will be stripped. At the top of the message will be a numbered list of the subjects in that digest, followed by the complete messages themselves. Digest recipients will not receive messages sent to segments. Note that the server administrator may specify a different schedule to release digests in Utilities: Administration: Server: Server Settings: Scheduled Tasks.
MIME Digest
The same as a digest, but in MIME format so that the individual messages' formatting is preserved. Digest recipients will not receive messages sent to segments.
Index
Each night, the user will receive a single email message containing all the subject lines of all the messages contributed to the mailing list that day. If any of the messages interest the user, the bottom of the index gives the email command that will retrieve the bodies of the messages.
Nomail
No email is sent to the user. The user is free to go the web interface whenever they want, and read the full text of the messages there. This setting is useful for when members go on vacation and want to stop receiving mail.
Enter/Verify New Password
The password for this member, masked and encrypted. To change the password, it must be entered twice to verify it has been entered correctly.
Important:
List administrators must specify a password. A password is optional for members.
If this member joined by sending email to the list's join address, the password is blank unless the list requires a member have a password. In that case, a random password will be assigned to the member if the member does not select one.
If the email address has multiple accounts on the server, you will be prompted to select which accounts to apply the new password to.
Membership Expiration Date
If set, this member's Status will change to Expired after the date specified. For example, to expire this member on January 1, 2003, you would enter "01/01/03".
# of Approvals Required
If the mailing list is set to use Number Moderating, this setting determines how many more messages this member needs to have approved before this member can contribute messages without needing approval. Once a list is set to Number moderated, each member must have a specific number of messages moderated and approved before "no approval needed" gets saved to their member profile. Note that this setting has no effect if this is not a number moderated list.
It can also be used with an unmoderated list, if problems with a particular member require that person's messages to be moderated. If a list is NOT number moderated, the default here will be "no approval needed," but the list will require all messages to be reviewed by an administrator, unless the member has the bypass list settings button set to Yes on the ListAdmintab.
This setting overrides the list's settings.
For more information on different types of approval for lists, see Utilities: List Settings: Email Submitted Content: Approval.