Hi everyone,

I understand that this exist so the newsletter doesn't became some sort of spam, but still, if someone already gave me my adress, he is alreadying giving me permission to e-mail him. Also, there is already the possibility of unsubscribing latter.

I have found that many soft-users tend to get confused with confirmation e-mails (specialy in foreing language - I'm Brazilian), so I'd like to have an option of people getting directy subscribed, without the need of a confirmation e-mail.

Thank you for the attentio!

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vm’s picture

vm commented

This is to protect "other" users from entering someone elses email address.

User A enters user B's email
User B gets unwanted newsletters

The protection mechanism is more to protect the above, then spam I believe.

lucasmafaldo’s picture

lucasmafaldo commented

ops - double post.

lucasmafaldo’s picture

lucasmafaldo commented

Good point.

But I'd still rather not have that feature. Is there anything I can do to make subscribers directly subscribed?

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented

two things you can do:
1. import the email address yourselves (as admin) using the import function
2. have the users create an account. This is the situation where "... someone already gave me my adress, he is alreadying giving me permission to e-mail him". No confirmation email is send to users, who's email address is already verified.

lucasmafaldo’s picture

lucasmafaldo commented

But can't I have a form that subscribes users directly?

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented

For anonymous users, no, this is not in simplenews and I have no intention to include this.

lucasmafaldo’s picture

lucasmafaldo commented

Ok, I understand.

Thank you for the attention.

solipsist’s picture

solipsist commented
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Then why the junction table in the database? The only reason you would want to separate subscriptions with user accounts is if there are subscriptions without corresponding user accounts.

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Both anonymous and subscribed users can subscribe to newsletters. Therefore the database table. But this discussion is about opt-in or not.

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solipsist commented

I've developed a module for a client that allows opt-out, it subscribes every new user to one or several newsletters (can be configured). It also allows mass subscription of users if necessary. I have plans to contribute it if people say they are interested. It depends on SimpleNews but is a separate module.

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stefanhapper commented
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I would also very much support an OPTION to allow registration without confirmation email. It's something clients demand very often.

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mcfilms commented

Wow! I read solipsist's post @ #11 with great interest. Did you ever release this? This is exactly what I am looking for. What a fantastic tool this would be.

solipsist’s picture

solipsist commented

mcfilms: It was written for Drupal 5 and needs upgrading to D6 and more recent versions of SimpleNews. I can send you the code if you want. I will probably not have time to release it until summer.

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mcfilms commented

Thank you, but I solved my issue. I was able to use Simplenews Roles http://drupal.org/project/simplenews_roles to mass-subscribe all of my users.