Using Confirm.pl to Confirm Members

Users can have two ways to confirm their membership: by replying to the confirmation message, or by clicking on a URL which you include in the confirmation message. This confirmation URL

To use the confirm.pl script, you must make sure that the variable $cgibinpath in your confirm.pl points to the correct location of your webserver's scripts directory. The default is "/cgi-bin/". You can also customize the content of the page generated by the script by editing it directly.

To specify the confirm URL in your confirm document, use the %memberidchar%% merge tag as in the following example:

http://www.yourserver.dom/cgi-bin/confirm.pl?id=%%memberidchar%%

The %%memberidchar%% merge tag returns the member ID of the recipient plus a special checksum character that is used to make sure that the member ID was entered correctly. This helps prevent people from accidentally typing in the wrong ID if they enter the URL manually.

You can also specify a special web page to load to after the subscription has been confirmed. This is determined by the $redirecturl variable in confirm.pl.