On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 02:50:34AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Hi,
I'm about to migrate a Yahoo Groups mailing list to mailman. Yahoo Groups offers four delivery modes:
- individual emails
- daily digests
- no mail
- special announcements only
and I have list members set to all four of them. The first three I can easily deal with, but I'm not sure how to handle those set to the last.
From the Mailman side of thing, I imagine the 'easy' way of emulating this is to have an announce only list, for all members (with bounce processing etc disabled).
I think most Y! groups subscribers would use "special annoucements only" for lists too noisy for them, but still want to hear about important things.
create a second list, mylist-announce, and subscribe everyone to that as well as mylist. But that makes user management tricky, requires new members to subscribe to both, unsubscribe from both, etc.
The sync_members script (and cron) might be useful hereā¦
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