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I'm using the REST API to create contacts and add them to an existing mailing group. I want to add them as pending and trigger the confirmation email but I can't find a way to do it via the API.

The extension org.civicoop.emailapi seems like it does what I need but it only supports up to 4.6 and I'm running 5.0.2.

Are there any other options?

edit - I've installed org.civicoop.emailapi and it's working under 5.0.2, but I can't make it send the group confirmation email as it's not a normal mailing template.

edit - If I create my own mailing template, I can't find a token that generates the confirmation link for a specific user and a specific group. To be clear, I want to recreate the {subscribe.url} token from the Subscription Confirmation Request automated message.

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We’re using civicoop email api extension on 4.7 and that means it should work on 5.x as well.

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  • Thanks, I've just installed it and it's working fine. I'm still having trouble though. emailapi works to send an email using a template from Mailings > Message Templates, but the group confirmation email is not in this list. – Piggo May 11 '18 at 13:12
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    You need to create your own Message Template – KarinG - Semper IT May 11 '18 at 16:43
  • Thanks Karin. I have tried that but I can't find a token that can be used for confirmation of group membership. The closest I have found is {action.subscribeUrl.gid}, but this only gives a link to a page where a user can enter their email, and in fact the token does not work at all in an email sent using the emailapi. – Piggo May 15 '18 at 10:17
  • This is more of a comment than an answer to the question. – michaelmcandrew Jul 13 '18 at 12:26
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I've found the answer.

I was calling GroupContact > Create with parameter Status=Pending. This worked to create the pending contact but as far as I can find there is no way to then trigger the double opt-in email.

The solution is instead to call MailingEventSubscribe > Create, with parameters for email address and group id. This adds the pending GroupContact and sends the double opt-in email.

For my use case, I needed to create the contact at the same time, so I use separate API calls of Contact > Create, then MailingEventSubscribe > Create.

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