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I am going to be working on a new feature for my misfin server - Newsletters! Mailinglists and Newsletters are not so different from each other (at least in the way I'm going to be implementing it).
Basically, the way I'm implementing it is a newsletter is a mailinglist where only one or some of the subscribers, those that are marked as writers/admins, can write to the mailinglist. Additionally, the original senders probably won't be included into the gemmail. So, a writer just needs to send a gemmail to the newsletter address and the newsletter will send it out to all of the subscribers.
Adding this feature introduces flexibility to the mailinglist system, where you can mark different users as writers or just normal users.
The final planned features for mailinglists is the ability to make them private or open. For private mailinglists, either you can manually add subscribers to the list, or you receive a list of new subscribers that all have to be accepted by a mailinglist admin. For open mailinglists, it allows anyone to send a gemmail to the mailinglist without having been subscribed first.
Additionally, when set to open, original senders who are nt subs should receive replies. I'm not sure how easy this is to do yet, but it is something that I would like implemented.
What I like about the way I have thought up how this newsletter system should work is you can effectively become a host for other people to setup their own newsletters on your server, because a newsletter is just a mailinglist with designated writers that can only write. For example, I could let anyone setup a newsletter on auragem's misfin server, and they would only have to write to their newsletter address from their own misfin address and it will send out to all the subscribers.
2023-10-01 · 5 weeks ago
Is the auragem dashboard public or not yet?
As I'd like to test it before setting it up, (but yeah I will probably have to set it up to send gemmail which is probably what I should do)
2023-10-02 · 5 weeks ago
@jmjl Hello! I haven't built the gemini dashboard interface for the misfin server yet, but I will start working on it very soon now that I've got most features for the misfin stuff working. Thanks!
The way it will work is the misfin protocol actually lets you handle gemini requests on the same port. So, you will be able to configure the misfin server to enable this gemini interface that is served on the same port, and then you just use a gemini client and go to the address on that port.
Other configuration options will be available like whether people will be able to register themselves or not, and an admin dashboard that allows admins to more easily configure server settings.