autoresponders API

[adalc]

Hi! I'd like to integrate my forum so that people who subscribe to it, automatically subscribe also to my autoresponder (I use ActiveCampaign).
Is it possible? if so, how (if not directly, via zapier is good to).
cheers,
Alvaro

[Lynx]

Just out of curiosity - how does one subscribe to a forum? I know one can get notifications, but that's not my interpretation of "subscribing". Can you elaborate?

[adalc]

I mean "register": if you want to see the content of my forum, you need to register/sign up... and you leave your email... :-)

I want to "capture" that email and add it in my mailing list.
It has nothing to do with notifications.

[₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪]

You can enable "no guests" in the forum settings, meaning they have to register in order to see your forum. It is built into the forum features already =)


Admin Panel > Forum Settings > Login & Registration > enable "Guests Must Login"

[Lynx]

Mar 16, 2016 0:12:52 GMT -8 adalc said:

I mean "register": if you want to see the content of my forum, you need to register/sign up... and you leave your email... :-)

I want to "capture" that email and add it in my mailing list.
It has nothing to do with notifications.

Oh, I realized it had nothing to do with notifications.

However, since users are allowed restrictions on their email visibility, even though you're the admin, I don't think a plugin can grab it for you to add automatically to any kind of list - at least, not to my knowledge. I could be wrong, so I'll let another coder verify whether this is possible or not. Maybe Peter or Chris or Virgil Sovereign or P̌̓aͧś̀t̀u͒le͆o͂2̀3̃̓ can verify this or not.

[adalc]

I CAN see the emails of all my members if I click on their profile...
So there must be a way to capture it... ;-)

[adalc]

Mar 16, 2016 0:20:07 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

You can enable "no guests" in the forum settings, meaning they have to register in order to see your forum. It is built into the forum features already =)


Admin Panel > Forum Settings > Login & Registration > enable "Guests Must Login"

Thanks, but that's not what I was looking for. I just want to collect their emails and bring them in my mailing list.
It's a private forum so I don't think why it shouldn't be possible to do so...

[Peter]

For privacy reasons, I very much doubt this will be allowed. I certainly would not register on a forum that was adding my email to a mailing list automatically. While you can view the members email from the profile and admin tools, sending them to a remote database for a mailing list is another thing entirely.

A better approach to this, would be to have your members signup to the mailing list themselves.

Just so you can get an official word on this, I'll tag Brian.

[Brian]

This would likely constitute harvesting user data, which is against our Terms of Service.

19. PROHIBITED USES

... (f) harvest or otherwise collect information about ProBoards users, including email addresses and phone numbers; ...