Restricting Members Posts
Hi, I am using Mailman Ver: 2.1.6
I want to make my Mailing list a newsletter subscription type service.. where the Subscriber can not post..
On the documentation its written that in the privacy options page, i can find the option of disabling of posting of subscribers except Moderators and Administrator...
But i am unable to find that setting in the privacy option of Mailman.. so i want to inquire that where is that option.. i am unable to find it in any page of Mailman (ver:2.1.6)
all i wnat is that the subscribers to my list can't post except administrator or moderators.
Thanks alot.. awaitng reply..
Thanking you in anticipation..
Webmaster www.milano-pizza.co.uk
Ashif Zubair wrote:
On the documentation its written that in the privacy options page, i can find the option of disabling of posting of subscribers except Moderators and Administrator...
I don't know what documentation you're looking at, but perhaps you are misinterpreting it. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.011.htp for a detailed discussion of setting up a newsletter, one-way or announcement list.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
I have just gone thru same process following FAQ 3.11 and found all works except one very important, i.e how an ³approved² sender as in FAQ3.11 "A more secure alternative" work.
I am working with Mailman 2.14 w/CP where I can set mod flag off for self, but with to leave mod flag on for all and use "Approved: <password> which I am somehow not doing or have not set correctly.
Any help, thanks,
Michael Rainey
on 2/26/06 8:28 AM, Mark Sapiro at msapiro@value.net wrote:
Ashif Zubair wrote:
On the documentation its written that in the privacy options page, i can find the option of disabling of posting of subscribers except Moderators and Administrator...
I don't know what documentation you're looking at, but perhaps you are misinterpreting it. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.011.htp for a detailed discussion of setting up a newsletter, one-way or announcement list.
Michael Rainey wrote:
I am working with Mailman 2.14 w/CP where I can set mod flag off for self, but with to leave mod flag on for all and use "Approved: <password> which I am somehow not doing or have not set correctly.
Do you mean 2.1.4? If you mean 2.0.14, the only way to do this is with an actual header. This is still the best way if your MUA allows you to add custom headers to your message, you add the header
Approved: password
where 'password' is the actual list admin password.
If you are using 2.1.x, you can instead put this line in the message body as the first non-blank line of the first text/plain part of the message. It will be effective there and will be removed.
Prior to Mailman 2.1.7, this line should be followed by a blank line as the following line was erroneously stripped along with the Approved line.
Also, prior to 2.1.7 the post needed to be plain text as opposed to multipart/alternative because the Approved line would not be removed from other than the first text/plain part. Beginning in 2.1.7, an attempt is made to remove the Approved line from any text/* parts in which it is found, but it must still be the first non-blank line in the first text/plain part, or it won't be recognized or removed.
I.e., this method won't work if you post HTML only.
-- Mark Sapiro msapiro@value.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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