Utilities: Members: New Member: Settings

 

Membership Status

Defines whether this person is a 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

A normal member who receives mailings from the list.

 

Confirm

The person has requested to join this mailing list, has received an email message asking them to confirm their membership, but has not accepted the confirmation message. This person's membership is waiting for be confirmed. Once the confirmation message is received, the person's type will change to normal.

 

Private

The person has requested to join this mailing list, but because this mailing list is set to private, their request to join is waiting for an administrator to approve it by changing their membership to normal. A private mailing list is one where requests to join the mailing list must be approved by a list administrator. 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membership set to expire on a certain date, and that date has past, so this person's membership has expired and is no longer active. If a membership has expired, a list admin may unexpire them by going into Utilities: Members: Edit Member: Settings for that particular member, changing the member expiration date in the section and changing their membership status to "normal member."

 

Held

The member's email address was invalid, or bounced mailing list messages for several days. Therefore, their membership was held and their mail is no longer sent to their address until their status is returned to normal.

 

Unsubscribed

The member was a member of the list at one time, but has since unsubscribed. The member will not receive email, but is retained in the database for statistical reasons or in case the member decides to resubscribe.

   

Membership Kind

This choice defines how the member wants to receive messages from the mailing list.

The choices are:

 

Mail

As soon as someone contributes a message to the mailing list, the user will receive a copy of that message.

 

Digest

Each night, around 12:00 am, the user will receive a single email message containing all the messages contributed to the mailing list that day. At the top of the message will be a numbered list of the subjects in that digest, followed by the complete messages themselves. Note that the 12:00am mailing time is not configurable.

 

MIME Digest

The same as a digest, but in MIME format so that the individual messages' formatting is preserved.

 

Index

Each night, around 1 in the morning, 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 also useful for people who want the ability to contribute to a mailing list, but do not care to see the contributions to the mailing list.

 

Password

Defines the login password for this member. This is the password the member will have to enter at the Enter Mailing List page in order to identify themselves as this member. While this field is optional, it is required that a password be used if this person is a list administrator.

 

If this member joined by using email (with the subscribe command), their 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 you enter the word "random" as the user's password, ListManager will automatically define a random 5 digit numerical password for this user. If you are creating or editing multiple members at once, each member will be given a different random password.

 

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 "1/1/03".

 

# 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.

 

It can also be used with an unmoderated list, if problems with a particular member require that person's messages to be moderated.

 

This setting overrides the list's settings.

More

 

1.   Utilities: Members

2.   Utilities: Members: Find Members

3.   Utilities: Members: Create Members

1.   Utilities: Members: New Member

1.   Utilities: Members: New Member: Basics

2.   Utilities: Members: New Member: List Admin

3.   Utilities: Members: New Member: Settings

4.   Utilities: Members: New Member: Advanced Settings

5.   Utilities: Members: New Member: Information


 



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