Thanks, that's exactly what I need!
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Tim Donohue <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Anonymous users can "subscribe" via an RSS feed (as all
> Collections/Communities have their own public RSS feeds).
>
> However, anonymous users cannot subscribe for email notifications. You
> must first register with DSpace / create an account (which also verifies
> your email address) in order to subscribe for email updates. This is the
> way it has always been (as far as I can recall).
>
> To allow anonymous users to subscribe to email updates is actually
> potentially problematic (unless you first have a step which first verifies
> their email address). We obviously would not want an anonymous user signing
> others up for notifications, or going in and signing up a mailing list for
> notifications (essentially "spamming" a list). There would need to be some
> form of validation that the person signing up for email notifications
> *owns* that email address. So, that's why it has been limited to persons
> who have a registered DSpace account.
>
> I'll add similar comments to DS-1868 shortly, as I'm not sure it's
> suggested fix is accurate either:
> https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-1868
>
> - Tim
>
>
> On 1/22/2014 11:42 AM, Bill Tantzen wrote:
>
>> In DSpace 3.2, is it possible for anonymous users to subscribe to
>> collections?
>>
>> From the docs, it does not appear so, but I just want to verify this...
>> I have seen DSpace/DS-1868, but that seems to be for v4.0 only
>>
>> If not, has this ever been possible in previous versions?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bill
>>
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