John Holley wrote:
I have a couple of lists where one of the accounts subscribed is a
global account for an organisation e.g. it sends a message to all
staff. So if a staff member goes to the list and then clicks on the
Password Reminder the password is mailed to all staff!Is it possible to stop specific list members from requesting passwords?
I don't think there's any way to configure a password request block on certain member addresses only short of modifying the code, and you can't really block all members either short of diverting the reminders by making the list an umbrella list.
The closest you can come I think is the following:
Say one of your lists is list1@example.com and the global address (maybe a Mailman list or maybe some other mail_all_staff address) is staff@example.com, then you can make a new list, say list1-sub-list@example.com and subscribe all the people of list1 but not 'staff' to list1-sub-list. Then remove all the people from list1, and change list1 to an umbrella list and subscribe list1-sub-list to it (staff is still subscribed).
Now the list1@example.com list has two members - list1-sub-list@example.com and staff@example.com. Password reminders will be sent to list1-sub-list-owner@example.com and staff-owner@example.com (or whatever based on umbrella_member_suffix for list1 so that problem is solved, but other problems are created so this may not be viable. Namely, individuals still post to list1, but they are actually members of and get their reminders from and set their options for list1-sub-list, so they are aware of it. If they can post to it, then staff don't receive the post.
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