Newsletter/registration confirmation request (aka. opt-in)

[Lynoure]

I wish to follow MAPS principles with the newsletter subscription and the registration (see: http://mail-abuse.org/manage.html#MAPS_Principles ). Is there a mod for requiring confirmation from the e-mail address in question?

[Lynoure]

Even manually/semi-manually done opt-in (e.g. wannabe-subscriber is send an e-mail they need to reply in order to be subscribed, the answer email then goes to the web store maintainer who adds the person to people who will recieve the newsletter) would be better than none. After all, newsletters are rarely deadly urgent.

[jpf]

You might want to look at:

Newsletter & Subscribers
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,535

As well as:
Newsletter Unsubscribe v1.0
http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,913
Which will place an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter allowing customers to unsubscribe themselves.

Atlease this is most of what your looking for. However the email verify part has not been added as a contribution that I could see.

[Lynoure]

Postlister, http://postlister.sourceforge.net/ , might be a good starting place for the address verification feature, as it's GPL and has been written in php and it too uses mysql. I guess ideally the verification would be done when registering, so that the user doesn't need to react to a verification email every time they subscribe to a product notification.