[pmwiki-users] collecting e-mail addresses for a newsletter

[Ian Barton]

> Questions:
> 
> - Do you know a module that can do this?
> - How to store the result securely? That is, the file containing the
> addresses should be hidden from outside.
> - Next step: what is the simplest way for sending newsletters?
> 
There are a few obvious problems doing this via PmWiki:

You need to stop spammers/vandals adding addresses to the list, so you 
would probably need some sort of capatcha to the registration screen.

Once you get past a relatively small number of users, managing lists 
manually becomes an admin headache. As an example what happens when 
someone wants to unsubscribe, but can't remember the email address they 
used to subscribe. This might sound unlikely, but it's quite common to 
get users who have multiple accounts with complex forwarding rules. You 
will then get an angry email from fred at flinstones.com demanding you 
un-subscribe him, when he had originally subscribed as bart at thesimpsons.com.


You might want to consider using one of the available packages, like Gnu 
Mailman then including its user management page in your wiki.

Ian.