Re: [Mailman-Users] How to create a list with an approved list of posters? (not answered by FAQ?)
Thanks but I am still not getting this.
On 8/30/06, Brad Knowles brad@stop.mail-abuse.org wrote:
At 2:12 PM -0400 2006-08-30, Elizabeth Schwartz wrote:
I have been charged with creating two lists, each with a limited set of people who are allowed to **post** to the list. One list is an umbrella list ; the other is not. The people who are allowed to post are a subset of members of the list.
That would be required for the umbrella list situation, unless you want to apply the patch where you can use the @list notation to call in the list of subscribers from another list and then put that in the set of approved senders.
I never want the whole list to be approved, I just want a few people to be approved.
I see how to allow them to post if they are *not* members of the list , but
not if they *are*.
Just turn off their moderation bits, but leave everyone else moderated.
The people who are in the sub-lists don't have moderation bits, though. If I make them unmodearted members of the umbrella list, and they are also members of the sub-lists, will they get everything twice?
(I will make some dummy lists to play with. This is all fraught with peril because much FUD exists about email at high levels. Many phone calls accompany use of these umbrella lists. To my knowledge, our mailman installations have NEVER lost or mis-delivered a message. But it's hard to prove that they never will)
Elizabeth Schwartz wrote:
The people who are in the sub-lists don't have moderation bits, though. If I make them unmodearted members of the umbrella list, and they are also members of the sub-lists, will they get everything twice?
Yes, unless you set their delivery on the umbrella list to disabled.
So if I understand, you have an umbrella list and some sub-lists. Your authorized posters are unmoderated on the sub-lists so they can post to the sub-list directly without their posts being held.
To enable them to post to the umbrella list, you have several options.
make the posters unmoderated members of the umbrella list with delivery disabled. This will work, but there will be administrivia issues. E.g., if jdoe@example.com is a member of the umbrella, things like the password reminder for jdoe will be sent to jdoe-owner@example.com which of course will bounce. You can turn off password reminders too and that may cover it.
make the umbrella list 'open'. I.e., set Privacy options...->Sender filters->generic_nonmember_action to accept. Then poster (who must be unmoderated on all the sub-lists) can post and the post is accepted by the umbrella and all the sub-lists. A non-member or non-poster post will be accepted by the umbrella, but held by the sub-lists.
add the posters to accept_these_nonmembers of the umbrella list.
make a 'posters' list which is not a member of the umbrella, but which has as members all the authorized posters. Apply the patch at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=103&atid=300103 and add '@posters' to the umbrella's accept_these_nonmembers.
There are probably other ways I haven't thought of (and gotcha's I haven't thought of too).
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