master list to allow users to subscribe all the other lists without admin approval
Hi,
Is there a way to setup a master list to allow any users in the master list to subscribe all the other lists in the same domain without admin approval? Note that the master list is a real list but it does not have to have any discussions through this list just like normal mailing list. Maybe, it would be like an announce mailing list.
The reason that we want to do this is because we have a lot of lists in the same domain and the list administrators are annoyed with lots of redundant approval of user subscriptions. So if this master list works, the list administrators do not have to approve all the other lists but only master list.
Is it possible?
Regards,
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- DongInn
Kim, DongInn writes:
Is there a way to setup a master list to allow any users in the master list to subscribe all the other lists in the same domain without admin approval?
Not exactly that without altering the code. Such a facility will probably be available in Mailman 3. (If it isn't already -- probably it isn't, yet -- I'll file an RFE in about 5 minutes. :-)
How much do you care about ensuring that only legitimate users be allowed to subscribe? You could always just not advertise the list but allow users to subscribe with user confirmation only.
On 02/02/2015 04:30 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Kim, DongInn writes:
Is there a way to setup a master list to allow any users in the master list to subscribe all the other lists in the same domain without admin approval?
Not exactly that without altering the code. Such a facility will probably be available in Mailman 3. (If it isn't already -- probably it isn't, yet -- I'll file an RFE in about 5 minutes. :-)
Steve is correct, but in Mailman 2.1.19 for which the first candidate has been released last week, there is a new Privacy options... -> Subscription rules -> subscribe_auto_approval feature that allows providing email addresses and ^regexps matching email addresses that are exempt from admin approval when subscribing. It would not be hard to extend this feature to accept the @listname syntax as well.
I will consider doing this for the 2.1.19 final release, but at a minimum, I'd have to add a new i18n string or change the ones I added with this feature, and I'd like to consider i18n frozen for 2.1.19 at this point. (deep sigh ...)
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