Talk:Announcement Mailing List

Entering large blocks of sample HTML code to display on the page is very difficult - all entities have to be escaped, and you can't use the &lt;nowiki&gt; tags if you want to have any additional formatting such as bold text.

Also, to prevent autolinking, the http part of code needs to be translated into html entities.

-- David

"Our script now redirects to your URLs with the following variables..."

Is there an option to redirect without those variables? I'm using WordPress as a CMS for a site I'm building, and the use of &name= in the query string is causing the pages to go 404.

--Greasyelbow 05:59, 18 Apr 2006 (PDT)

+1 to Greasyelbow's question. It seems like the return values option on the script breaks WordPress integration :/

--Anderm3 23:10, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Method to add user without using form POST?
I have a Contact page using form mail, and want to include a checkbox that enable visitors, to also subscribe to our Announce List when posting their form mail.

Is there a facility for adding users to the Announce List without using form POST?

Right now our form & submit action processes the form mail, so thinking I would need to make some PHP call re-using the email address to subscribe to the Announce LIst somehow.

Obviously I'm not a CGI guru. Any ideas? (might make for a nice KB entry?) --Casemon 04:47, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Easy to do!

http://edwardawebb.com/web-development/automatically-subscribe-users-dreamhost-announce-lists

Enjoy

Eddiewebb 15:33, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Getting notification of customer joining mailing list
I am trying to figure out how to get a notification email when someone joins my mailing list. I've looked at the wiki page, but I still can't understand it. Any chance someone can give me a few pointers?

Domains with double hyphens don't work?
I recently moved an announcement list form stage to production. but it no longer works!

The only difference is that the new domain has double hyphens (my--domain.com)

I noticed that the dreamhost cgi script uses double hyphens to denote variables. I tried escaping the hyphens using html characters &#45;, backslasges \-\-, but nothing works.

Anyone have announce lists working on adouble-hyphen domain?

Eddiewebb 15:22, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Domains with double hyphens don't work?
I recently moved an announcement list form stage to production. but it no longer works!

The only difference is that the new domain has double hyphens (my--domain.com)

I noticed that the dreamhost cgi script uses double hyphens to denote variables. I tried escaping the hyphens using html characters &#45;, backslasges \-\-, but nothing works.

Anyone have announce lists working on adouble-hyphen domain?

Eddiewebb 15:23, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Unsubscribe emails
Can Dreamhost set it up so that when you unsubscribe from a announce or discuss mailing list that you receive an email confirmation that you've been unsubscribed? Right now the only capability it appears to have is that it just removes you from the list and takes you to a custom landing page.

Tostie14 21:52, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

I would also like this feature to be added. It would help manage morons from messing with another user's subscription.

Custom Fields
I appreciate being able to add custom fields to the mailing list sign-ups, but there doesn't appear to be any way to access those custom fields after the subscription process. Are they stored anywhere? Is there any way to access them?

Similarly, is there any way I can correct capitalization of names attached to email addresses without having to unsubscribe them and subscribe them again with the corrected name? It makes me look sloppy when sending announce emails that automatically insert their name. Tostie14 21:52, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

Any thought to this?
I would love to use custom fields just like --name-- and --email--. Most notably a client wants to separate first name out as "hello John Smith" does not seem as personal as "hello John" Even something like --name[0]-- would work for me, though custom fields would be best, even if unamed --3-- --4-- etc...

Eddiewebb (talk) 16:55, 3 January 2013 (PST)

Firefox NoScript Extension
I noticed I kept getting an error trying to sign up to an e-mail list which said The list address is invalid: alias is blank, as if I hadn't specified the list to use. Eventually I noticed that the NoScript extension was proudly telling me it protected me from XSS, with details in the console. Looking in the console, NoScript changed the POST request to a GET request with no data, so it actually wasn't specifying anything anymore. People using the NoScript extension need to either turn off the XSS protection that changes cross-site POST requests into data-less GET requerst or add http://scripts.dreamhost.com/add_list.cgi to the XSS exceptions list.

--misterhaan 08:25, 12 January 2011 (PST)


 * Wow, NoScript does that? That'll break a lot more than just our list signup form. Andrew F 10:54, 12 January 2011 (PST)