It seems this module does nothing for new users. The code for the function mailman_manager_user() has this comment:

/**
* Implementation of hook_user()
* Checks whether an email address is subscribed to the mailinglist
* when a new user signs up. If so, changes uid from 0 to the new uid
* in sn_subscriptions so that the user's subscription status is known
* when he logs in.
*/
function mailman_manager_user($op, &$edit, &$account, $category = NULL) {

But in fact, the code simply looks like that for the mailing list tab under user/edit.

How can the code be rectified so that it checks if a user is already in the mailing list, and if they are not, automatically subscribe them (perhaps based on the value of an additional list setting)?

Thanks,
Chris

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cboshuizen’s picture

cboshuizen CreditAttribution: cboshuizen commented

Any ideas? Right now I have found a work around by redirecting new users to the mailman page after registration, but it is not optimal. I'd love have this documented but absent functionality!

arturoramos’s picture

arturoramos CreditAttribution: arturoramos commented
Assigned: Unassigned » arturoramos
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

That "documentation" is a vestige of the sn_subscriptions module (from which the code was replicated) as the comment indicates. There is no way for Drupal to know whether a new Drupal user is already signed up for a Mailman mailing list as there is no true two-way communication between Mailman and this module.

I am closing out this issue because this was never meant to be a functionality of the module and there is really no way (that I can think of) of implementing such a function even if we wanted to.

Sorry.