Is there a way to allow messages from non-members to go to a list without any moderation?
Hostgator uses mailman to provide mailing list features. So I used it to set up several lists and started playing with them. The problem is that I really am looking for the lists to work as a multiple destination alias (which hostgator doesn¹t appear to support) rather than a real list.
I just want a simple way to have certain email address automatically route to several other emails at the same time. What I got instead is a situation where I will send out an email to the list only to get back a notification of the need to approve this email I just sent out. I have looked through a ton of documentation and so far haven¹t figured out how to turn this off.
So I have two situations. 1) I want a closed list that needs to be moderated if a non-member posts to it I think I have figured out how to do this one) and 2) I want an open list where anyone can send to it just as if its a regular email - and I would control and approve any addition or deletions from that list (I haven¹t figured out how to do this yet).
If anyone can point me to an old posting about accomplishing the automatically email routing of non-member email to a list without moderator intervention, please email me.
Thanks
Deb
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Deb Seidman wrote:
Hostgator uses mailman to provide mailing list features. So I used it to set up several lists and started playing with them. The problem is that I really am looking for the lists to work as a multiple destination alias (which hostgator doesn¹t appear to support) rather than a real list.
The way to do this is to go into Privacy/Sender Filters and set it so that the default non-member action is Accept.
However, depending on your preferences, this may not be all you will want to do with this.
In order to let through absolutely everything, you'll also want to set the maximum message size to 0, set it to not care how many recipients there are to a message, and set it not to care whether or not the list name is in the To or Cc fields of the message. The first of these is in the general options (I think), and the others are in the recipient filters in the privacy section.
I've had to set up such a list myself recently and ran into a few of these gotchas. I think that perhaps I also had to set something else but I forget now what it might have been.
Geoff.
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