Fa Yoeu wrote:

I want to use one email address for posting and administrative functions. Is this possible with mailman? Currently I have the following setup.

1. Mail is forwarded from list-*@domain to one list@ISP.
2. Mail from ISP is retrieved using fetchmail with one user account.

All posting to the list is working correctly. However ...

1. When mail is sent to list-request, it is caught and pending with reason administrative requests found. Is there a way to force it to process these email.

2. When mail is sent to list-owner, it is caught and pending with reason, explicit destination. Same question here, how to force it to recognize and process these.

NOTE: that i have only one alias entry: ## test1 mailing list family-list: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post family-list"

Other than that, I am happy with mailman and have been using it for months now.

Mailman won't work if all mail to all listname-* is forwarded to a single address. What you have above is all mail ending up piped to "/var/mailman/mail/mailman post listname" which is why you are having the problems you have. You need ultimately to pipe for example mail to listname-request to "/var/mailman/mail/mailman request listname" and similarly for all the other listname-* addresses.

I was going to suggest setting up a procmail following the fetchmail to examine the envelope to and pipe the mail properly depending on envelope to. I don't think this will work since envelope to has been rewritten by the forwarding process. You could use ^TO_ but that's not as reliable as envelope to.

-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Fa Yoeu wrote:

I want to use one email address for posting and administrative functions. Is this possible with mailman? Currently I have the following setup.

1. Mail is forwarded from list-*@domain to one list@ISP.
2. Mail from ISP is retrieved using fetchmail with one user account.

All posting to the list is working correctly. However ...

1. When mail is sent to list-request, it is caught and pending with reason administrative requests found. Is there a way to force it to process these email.

2. When mail is sent to list-owner, it is caught and pending with reason, explicit destination. Same question here, how to force it to recognize and process these.

NOTE: that i have only one alias entry: ## test1 mailing list family-list: "|/var/mailman/mail/mailman post family-list"

Other than that, I am happy with mailman and have been using it for months now.

Mailman won't work if all mail to all listname-* is forwarded to a single address. What you have above is all mail ending up piped to "/var/mailman/mail/mailman post listname" which is why you are having the problems you have. You need ultimately to pipe for example mail to listname-request to "/var/mailman/mail/mailman request listname" and similarly for all the other listname-* addresses.

I was going to suggest setting up a procmail following the fetchmail to examine the envelope to and pipe the mail properly depending on envelope to. I don't think this will work since envelope to has been rewritten by the forwarding process. You could use ^TO_ but that's not as reliable as envelope to.

-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan