Shared non-member filters
Hello,
I'm almost sure I saw mention of something like this somewhere, but googling isn't finding it...
Is there a patch available for Mailman that will let multiple lists share another lists non-member (and maybe other) filters?
Thanks,
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Best regards,
Charles
Charles Marcus wrote:
Is there a patch available for Mailman that will let multiple lists share another lists non-member (and maybe other) filters?
I think you mean <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=103&atid=300103>. This patch allows specifying the name of a list (say list2) in list1's accept_these_nonmembers so that members of list2 can post to list1 even if they aren't members of list1.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Is there a patch available for Mailman that will let multiple lists share another lists non-member (and maybe other) filters?
I think you mean <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=103&atid=300103>. This patch allows specifying the name of a list (say list2) in list1's accept_these_nonmembers so that members of list2 can post to list1 even if they aren't members of list1.
Yep, thats it, thanks! According to the bug tracker, this patch will be included in 2.1.10...
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Best regards,
Charles
Charles Marcus wrote:
I think you mean <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=103&atid=300103>. This patch allows specifying the name of a list (say list2) in list1's accept_these_nonmembers so that members of list2 can post to list1 even if they aren't members of list1.
Yep, thats it, thanks! According to the bug tracker, this patch will be included in 2.1.10...
I have a question.
The implementation in Mailman 2.1.10 is documented only for accept_these_nonmembers, but it actually works for all four of the *_these_nonmembers lists.
It is clearly most useful for accept_these_nonmembers, but it could be used say in hold_these_nonmembers to hold posts from members of some other list that would otherwise be discarded or rejected.
It could also be used to make a 'bad list' to be referenced in reject or discard _these_nonmembers to reject or discard posts from the members of the 'bad list' that would otherwise be held or accepted. The 'bad list' would not be used to send mail. It would just be a way of maintaining a list of 'bad' addresses.
My question is do people think they might use this ability to reference a list in the other *_these_nonmembers lists, and should it be documented for them too.
-- Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 11/19/2007, Mark Sapiro (msapiro@value.net) wrote:
My question is do people think they might use this ability to reference a list in the other *_these_nonmembers lists, and should it be documented for them too.
Sorry for the belated response...
Yes, I can see the potential benefit for this ability. I have no need for it currently, but you never know.
So, my vote would be to keep and document it...
Thanks for the .10b1 release - now just have to wait for the gentoo dev to make the ebuild available in the official portage tree (I haven't opened the can of worms that keeping my own, local repository of unofficial ebuilds yet, if I ever will)...
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Best regards,
Charles
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