Mark Sapiro wrote:
so my second thought was to auto-accept postings to the "users" list which has a special header-field (i thought that the "List-ID"-field would just be ok for my purposes). unfortunately i found that this wasn't possible (i am running debian and tried both 2.1.5-8sarge2 (which is basically 2.1.5 with some cross-site-scripting security issues fixed) and 2.1.8)
You could do this with a custom handler which is not a patch in that once it is implemented and installed, it survives upgrades. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.067.htp
yes true, i thought of that. but then i didn't want to spend to much time in learning how to do such a handler in a "clean" way. it is quite important to me that code and configuration are kept separately. i guess this is possible (but i haven't dived too deep into this) as far as i could overlook the custom handler thing, it also means that i would have to add such handler for each mailing list (e.g. copy the code snippet to each list i would want to enable my feature). so it was all too much of a hazzle...
anyhow, i have set up a small HOW-TO about my solution (using exim&procmail) at http://iem.at/Members/zmoelnig/mailmanprocmail
feel free, if you want to put it into a more "official" place.
mfg.asd.r IOhannes