[RFCI-Discuss] Getting e-mail notifications about changes in submission status

[egor duda]

Hi!

Friday, 04 October, 2002 Derek J. Balling wrote:

DJB> On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 05:49  AM, egor duda wrote:
>>   Is it possible to get notifications when submitted evidence for some
>> CIDR is evaluated and to know the result -- whether submission is
>> accepted or rejected? I suppose submitter can periodically lookup
>> the address in question, but having notification by e-mail is probably
>> much more convenient.

DJB> At present this is not an option, mainly because on the submission form 
DJB> you could put anyone's address and they'd get all the notifications, 
DJB> etc., and it doesn't make much sense to only allow notification on 
DJB> entries submitted by e-mail.

DJB> I'm open to suggestions on it (I'd start looking at it after I finished 
DJB> the "request autoremoval" project), but that [to me] is the biggest 
DJB> stumbling block.

I've seen people doing this by creating "dummy" mailing list (to which
nothing is posted). Those addresses that are "subscribed" to this
mailing list are allowed in submission form as a notification
addresses. If you want one extra level of checking you may require
password that user has entered when subscribing to be entered in
submission form too.

If someone wants to receive notifications, he subscribes to this
mailing list.

The only problem i see is that you're not hosting rfci-related mailing
lists, so checking if some address is subscribed requires asking some
remote server. But if the host which receives submissions already have
majordomo or ezmlm or some other mailing list software installed, it
shouldn't be big problem.

Egor.                                           mailto:deo@logos-m.ru