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  • From: "Silvers, Tim" <address@concealed>
  • To: "Silvers, Tim" <address@concealed>
  • Cc: Steve Shipway <address@concealed>, "address@concealed" <address@concealed>, "Miles Fidelman" <address@concealed>
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] one-click unsubscribe?
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 15:38:04 +0000

I should be more specific. I know you can set merge_feature default in
sympa.conf, but can you set a default footer to include this for all lists?
Is there a reason not to do this?

Tim

> On Jul 12, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Silvers, Tim <address@concealed> wrote:
>
> This is a great option, but it is specific to each list, correct? Is there
> a way to set this globally?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Steve Shipway <address@concealed>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 30/06/16 07:55, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> Is there any easy way to include a one-click unsubscribe link in
>>> messages? (It's that time of year when folks want to take themselves off
>>> school-related lists, and I'm dealing with a flood of manual requests).
>> Yes, this is possible, but (since the link is personalised to each user)
>> you need to use the MailMerge feature to do it. There is also the issue
>> that some webmail systems may pre-fetch any URLs in order to test them
>> (Gmail does this) which can result in users being unsubscribed simply by
>> viewing the email. Making a 'click to confirm' could help with this.
>>
>> See here for details:
>> https://www.sympa.org/manual_6.1/message-handling#unsubscription_url
>>
>> Steve
>>
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