Adding Subscriber to Mailing List

Use the add-member operation to add a new subscriber to a mailing list specified by name or ID.

In this chapter:

Request Packet Structure

Response Packet Structure

Samples

 

Request Packet Structure

A request XML packet adding a subscriber includes the add-member operation node:

<packet>
<maillist>
<add-member>
...  
</add-member>
</maillist>
</packet>

 

The add-member node is presented by the MaillistAddMemberInputType type (maillist.xsd), and its graphical representation is as follows:

Remarks

You can add multiple subscribers to a mailing list using different filtering rules in a single packet. Add as many add-member operations as the number of different filtering rules to be applied.

<add-member>
   ...
</add-member>
   ...
<add-member>
   ...
</add-member>

Important: When creating request packets, put nodes and elements in the order they follow in the packet structure.

 

Response Packet Structure

The add-member node of the output XML packet is presented by type MaillistAddMemberOutputType (maillist.xsd) and structured as follows:

 

 

Samples

Adding a subscriber

This request packet adds the subscriber with e-mail address mymail@mysite.com to mailing list MyMailer.

<packet>
<maillist>
<add-member>
   <filter>
      <list-name>MyMailer</list-name>
   </filter>
   <id>mymail@mysite.com</id>
</add-member>
</maillist>
</packet>

Response:

<packet>
<maillist>
<add-member>
   <result>
      <status>ok</status>
      <filter-id>MyMailer</filter-id>
      <id>mymail@mysite.com</id>
   </result>
</add-member>
</maillist>
</packet>

 

If the mailing list was not found on the server, the response looks as follows:

<packet>
<maillist>
<add-member>
   <result>
      <status>error</status>
      <errcode>1015</errcode>
      <errtext>Mailing list does not exist</errtext>
      <filter-id>MyMailer</filter-id>
   </result>
</add-member>
</maillist>
</packet> 
Adding subscribers to multiple mailing lists

This request packet adds the subscriber with e-mail address mymail@mysite.com to mailing lists MyMailer and SubscribeMe.

<packet>
<maillist>
<add-member>
   <filter>
      <list-name>MyMailer</list-name>
      <list-name>SubscribeMe</list-name>
   </filter>
   <id>mymail@mysite.com</id>
</add-member>
</maillist>
</packet>

Response:

<packet>
<maillist>
<add-member>
   <result>
      <status>ok</status>
      <filter-id>MyMailer</filter-id>
      <id>mymail@mysite.com</id>
   </result>
   <result>
      <status>ok</status>
      <filter-id>SubscribeMe</filter-id>
      <id>mymail@mysite.com</id>
   </result>
</add-member>
</maillist>
</packet>