Use as a mailing list replacement

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Hi,

We are trying to move from a mailing list based organisation, the first step (done) was to mirror the mailing list to build an archive, and now we want to leave it hybrid for a while, with some users mostly using discourse as a mailing list + online archive, the others using discourse online.

Discourse works quite ok as a mailing list replacement: each list is a category restricted to a group, and to be a member of the list you are a member of the group.
We then can set up the notification level of that group so by default, it watches the category.

What I didn’t solve yet is the registration, the new user needs first to create an account, then request membership to the group (the best we found is to direct them to the welcome topic in the category and hit the “request access” button), then wait until someone approve the request and go to the category (or wait until a new post ends up in her inbox)

It would smooth things if we could merge the registration (as a user)+ request to join a group

Searching this forum, I haven’t found a way to do that. Am I missing something? Do you have suggestions to make it easier for the users to join a group as part of the registration process?

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This should be achievable if you created staged users while importing your mailing list to discourse.
if these users come from a specific email domain (@example.com) then the groups can be set so that the members are automatically assigned the given group(s) based on their email address.
Another way is to send them invites with group membership assigned upon accepting the invite.

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我正在处理我的邮件列表。我最初为过去 20 年里每个人发布过的所有唯一电子邮件地址创建了用户。是的，这可能创建了一些近乎重复的用户，包括我本人，而且我知道有些用户多年来在多个不同的电子邮件地址下发帖，因为他们搬家了。

我将在下周开始过渡，届时我会通知我的订阅者，如果他们发过帖，他们可能已经拥有一个以他们的电子邮件地址命名的账户，并且他们应该尝试为该账户生成一个新密码。（我在创建用户时分配了随机的 15 位密码。）如果不行，他们有两个选择：注册一个新用户账户，或者联系我，询问他们曾用哪个电子邮件地址发帖，以防万一他们还能访问该地址。（user@foo.com 与 user@bar.foo.com 被视为独立的用户这一事实已纳入我的计划。）

我还有一些只读订阅者，他们还没有账户，因为他们从未发过帖。我可能会向他们发出邀请加入。 （我已经测试过，如果我尝试邀请一个已经拥有该电子邮件地址的用户账户的人，系统会自动跳过。）

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