Whitelisting members of sublists?
I have a list X that contains two sub-lists: Y and Z.
The members of Y can post to Y w/o being held, and the members of Z can post to Z w/o being held.
However, if a Y member posts to X, his message is held, since he's not directly on X (he's on Y, which is on X, so he's only indirectly on X).
Is there an easy fix for this? Does Mailman understand the concept of "sublists", or does it treat sublists as just regular email addresses? Can I make Mailman think "hey, this email address on this list is coming to my domain and it's the name of another list I manage-- I'll treat it special"?
I realize I can whitelist on a one-off basis or even script something to run in cron, but that's ugly for a general solution.
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Kelly Jones wrote:
I have a list X that contains two sub-lists: Y and Z.
The members of Y can post to Y w/o being held, and the members of Z can post to Z w/o being held.
However, if a Y member posts to X, his message is held, since he's not directly on X (he's on Y, which is on X, so he's only indirectly on X).
Is there an easy fix for this? Does Mailman understand the concept of "sublists", or does it treat sublists as just regular email addresses?
Mailman treats sublists as just regular email addresses.
There is a patch at <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1220144&group_id=103&atid=300103> which allows you to put for example, @Y and @Z in list X's accept_these_nonmembers. This will do what you want, although you may also need to put @Y in Z's accept_these_nonmembers and vice versa.
This feature is in the base for Mailman 2.1.10 (now in beta).
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