Is there any way to restrict posting on only one email address?
For an annoucement list I would like subscribers not to be able to post. Is there any way to restrict posting on only one email or few address?
Thanks. Peter
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For an annoucement list I would like subscribers not to be able to post. Is there any way to restrict posting on only one email or few address?
Thanks. Peter
You will find everything you need under "Privacy Options" in the Admin/setup interface.
Must posts be approved by an administrator - Yes
Addresses of members accepted for posting to this list without implicit approval requirement. - Addresses of those allowed to post.
=== This sets up the list so that the allowed posters can post freely and anyone else's post goes to the admins for approval (or to be discarded). If you always want to discard the queued up posts waiting for approval, then setup a cron job to delete them: rm ~mailman/data/heldmsg-LISTNAME-*
I'm in the process of converting from another list server to Mail-Man. I see that I can add users through the admin web interface, but I am concerned.
When someone adds themselves to a list, they are prompted for a password. When I add a list, there is no password prompt.
How does this get resolved? Is the password no big deal? Are they asked to enter a password at some point in the future?
Enquiring minds want to know... Thanks, Mike
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I'm in the process of converting from another list server to Mail-Man. I see that I can add users through the admin web interface, but I am concerned.
When someone adds themselves to a list, they are prompted for a password. When I add a list, there is no password prompt.
How does this get resolved? Is the password no big deal? Are they asked to enter a password at some point in the future?
Enquiring minds want to know... Thanks, Mike
Mike Avery
When you add a user to the list, Mailman autogenerates a password for them. If you have Mailman send a welcome message to each person that you add then they will get their passwords in the Welcome message.
Otherwise, you can trigger Mailman to send the passwords out (which it normally does monthly anyway), or any individual can go to the listinfo interface and put in their email address to have their password mailed to them.
Jon Carnes
I'm in the process of migrating from another list server, Mercury by David Harris. One of the important things in the old mailing list is the archives. So, I'd like to convert them or migrate them. The existing archives are flat text files, not even mime. There are delimiters at the end of each message that seem to be pretty unambiguous.
Has anyone imported archives from another list server into Mailman? If so, do you have any advice or guidance?
Thanks, Mike
Mike Avery
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I'm in the process of migrating from another list server, Mercury by David Harris. One of the important things in the old mailing list is the archives. So, I'd like to convert them or migrate them. The existing archives are flat text files, not even mime. There are delimiters at the end of each message that seem to be pretty unambiguous.
Has anyone imported archives from another list server into Mailman? If so, do you have any advice or guidance?
Thanks, Mike
I hesitate to mention it, but there is an old utility called "digest_arch" that was used for moving flat files into email syntax. Here are the notes from the script:
NOTE: This is being deprecated since mailman has been shifted over to an external archiver (ie, andrew kuchling's latest version of pipermail.)
This program shouldn't be attempted by people who don't understand Python. I wrote it to build archives for a few lists I'd been running for a long time under majordomo.
Convert majordomo digests all stored in one directory into mailbox format. Note that the digests correct order in the dir should be alphabetical order.
The output file is ARCHIVE.ME in the same directory the digests are in. Run this program before you transfer the majordomo list.
To get the output file archived, create the list under mailman, run this script, and then do the following:
cat ARCHIVE.ME >> ~mailman/mailman/lists/mylist/archived.mail
You also need to adjust the variable: NUM_LINES_TO_STRIP_FROM_TOP (currently it's set to 11).
Good Luck - Jon Carnes
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