Totally disable list subscriptions?
Hi,
For years I ran a Mailman list on my own server, until it obviously became too much of a load for certain ISPs to think I was sending legitimate Email. The final straw was when Microsoft blacklisted my IP from sending to all of their Email services (Hotmail, live.com, Outlook, etc.). I decided to move that heavy traffic list to groups.io. Still, I wanted there to be a placeholder at the list's old URL that would tell people the list has moved, and where to find it. For this reason, I created a new, empty, dummy list with the old list's name, and set subscriptions to require moderator approval. I have a Milter set up to block all inbound mail to the list's old addresses with a 551 failure message giving the URL of the new list. However, from time to time someone will subscribe via the web, so I still need to reject their subscriptions and point them to the new location. Is there any way in Mailman to outright disable any and all subscription attempts for a specific list?
Thanks,
Jayson
On 9/25/19 7:04 AM, Jayson Smith wrote:
Is there any way in Mailman to outright disable any and all subscription attempts for a specific list?
Set a regexp that matches anything in Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> ban_list. E.g.,
^.*$
However, this will only send a generic "banned" message to the address.
Instead of a dummy list, you could just create a static web page at the list's URLs to say what you want or maybe just redirect those URLs to the new location.
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