Utilities: Members: New/Edit 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 replied to the confirmation message.
Once the member has confirmed membership, the person's type will change to normal. Note that if the confirmation message is undeliverable, the member will be deleted.
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membership set to expire on a certain date, and that date has past, so this person's membership has expired and is no longer active.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.
Referred
The member was invited to join using a referral, but has not yet joined the list.
Needs-Confirm
The member will receive a message asking them to confirm their membership, and then their status will be set to Confirm.
Needs-Hello
The member will receive a message welcoming them to the list, and their status will be Normal.
Needs-Goodbye
The member will receive a message informing them they have left the list, and their status will be Unsubscribed.
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, 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 12:00 a.m. 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. If the member record is edited at a later date, and the word "random" is entered again here, it will reassign a different random password, after the member record is saved.
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. 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 ListAdmin tab.
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.
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1. Members: New/Edit Member: Basics
2. Members: New/Edit Member: List Admin
3. Members: New/Edit Member: Settings
4. Members: New/Edit Member: Advanced Settings
5. Members: New/Edit Member: Information
6. Members: New/Edit Member: Demographics
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