[Improvement] Ability to send only one single email confirmation after sign-up to several mailing lists
Overview
CiviCRM allows people to sign up to several mailing lists / groups at once via civicrm/mailing/subscribe
. Then they receive numerous confirmation emails to double opt-in. In our experience, since those emails all look very similar, many people mistake them for being the same; hence they click and confirm in one but not the others. As a result, you end up with many "pending" sign-ups (we have 10,000+ by now).
Example use-case
- Create several mailing list groups
- Go to
civicrm/mailing/subscribe
and sign up to more than one list - Receive several similar looking confirmation emails
- Confirm only one and find yourself being subscribed to only one of the list you actually wanted to be on
Proposed behaviour
To remedy this situation, CiviCRM could give admins the option of whether CiviCRM should send a single double opt-in email for every sign-up event instead of individual ones per mailing list in order to avoid confusing people when signing up.