approval before changing mail address
Dear all,
I hope this is the right mailing list to ask this kind of questions.
We run mailing lists with mailman for an organization with multiple groups and each group has its own mailing list(s). Our policy requires that subscriptions are approved by a moderator.
However, we got requests from people to change their email address for all their subscriptions. We found that people can do so themselves via the web interface, but we could not find out how to let a moderator approve this change.
Required sequence:
- user changes his email address for all his subscriptions (works)
- owner of new email address confirms (works)
- moderator approves (not found)
Is this possible with mailman and if yes what version of mailman is required?
If not is there any way to remove this option from the member page, so they can still unsubscribe, watch the archive, etc.?
Can a list adminstrator change the mail address of a user for all of his subscriptions at once?
Thanks in advance,
Michael
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On 5/13/13 11:06 AM, Michael Probst wrote:
As to a list administrator changing the mail address of a user for all of his subscriptions, that isn't allowed as a list administrator can only change things relating to "his" list, so the "all subscriptions" option is blocked for people logging in with list administrator access.
As to approving change of address requests, are you sure this is really needed? Normally subscription approval is used to allow the list to only go to "approved" people, so when the subscription comes in, you approve the PERSON to receive the list, if they then chose to receive the list at a different address, that shouldn't be an issue.
-- Richard Damon
We want to be able to have root user send out emails to any distribution list..
Currently we have an instance of mailman were this works. I checked and noticed that root is not added to the membership list. So not sure were in the config you can set this to.
In the new instance of mailman that I set up, when I send out mail to distribution list I see these get queued but no mails are received by the members of the distribution list..
Any help is much appreciated..
Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote: On 5/13/13 11:06 AM, Michael Probst wrote:
As to a list administrator changing the mail address of a user for all of his subscriptions, that isn't allowed as a list administrator can only change things relating to "his" list, so the "all subscriptions" option is blocked for people logging in with list administrator access.
As to approving change of address requests, are you sure this is really needed? Normally subscription approval is used to allow the list to only go to "approved" people, so when the subscription comes in, you approve the PERSON to receive the list, if they then chose to receive the list at a different address, that shouldn't be an issue.
-- Richard Damon
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On 05/14/2013 06:23 AM, Kamlesh Rao wrote:
We want to be able to have root user send out emails to any distribution list..
Currently we have an instance of mailman were this works. I checked and noticed that root is not added to the membership list. So not sure were in the config you can set this to.
What exactly works? Local mail originating from root or any mail that happens to spoof root@example.com in the From: header.
If the latter, just add root@example.com to Privacy options... -> Sender filters -> accept_these_nonmembers.
If the former, you must have some local mods to support this.
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On 5/13/13 11:06 AM, Michael Probst wrote:
As to a list administrator changing the mail address of a user for all of his subscriptions, that isn't allowed as a list administrator can only change things relating to "his" list, so the "all subscriptions" option is blocked for people logging in with list administrator access.
As to approving change of address requests, are you sure this is really needed? Normally subscription approval is used to allow the list to only go to "approved" people, so when the subscription comes in, you approve the PERSON to receive the list, if they then chose to receive the list at a different address, that shouldn't be an issue.
-- Richard Damon
We want to be able to have root user send out emails to any distribution list..
Currently we have an instance of mailman were this works. I checked and noticed that root is not added to the membership list. So not sure were in the config you can set this to.
In the new instance of mailman that I set up, when I send out mail to distribution list I see these get queued but no mails are received by the members of the distribution list..
Any help is much appreciated..
Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> wrote: On 5/13/13 11:06 AM, Michael Probst wrote:
As to a list administrator changing the mail address of a user for all of his subscriptions, that isn't allowed as a list administrator can only change things relating to "his" list, so the "all subscriptions" option is blocked for people logging in with list administrator access.
As to approving change of address requests, are you sure this is really needed? Normally subscription approval is used to allow the list to only go to "approved" people, so when the subscription comes in, you approve the PERSON to receive the list, if they then chose to receive the list at a different address, that shouldn't be an issue.
-- Richard Damon
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On 05/14/2013 06:23 AM, Kamlesh Rao wrote:
We want to be able to have root user send out emails to any distribution list..
Currently we have an instance of mailman were this works. I checked and noticed that root is not added to the membership list. So not sure were in the config you can set this to.
What exactly works? Local mail originating from root or any mail that happens to spoof root@example.com in the From: header.
If the latter, just add root@example.com to Privacy options... -> Sender filters -> accept_these_nonmembers.
If the former, you must have some local mods to support this.
Note: Please don't hijack existing threads by replying to an unrelated post. If starting a new topic, post an original message to mailman-users@python.org, don't reply to another message.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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