Hi,
I am a newbie to Mailman and cpanel and I need some help, please. I have set up a mailing list for my tennis club (about 300 on list) and it seems to work ok BUT each recipient only sees the mailing list name rather than his own email name in the 'to' box. One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way to prevent this but I can't find it!
David Elliott
On 03/26/2018 01:51 AM, David Elliott wrote:
Hi,
I am a newbie to Mailman and cpanel and I need some help, please. I have set up a mailing list for my tennis club (about 300 on list) and it seems to work ok BUT each recipient only sees the mailing list name rather than his own email name in the 'to' box.
If you want this, you have to set the list's Non-digest options -> personalize setting to Full Personalization. If you do not see the 'personalize' settings on the admin Non-digest options page, you need to set
OWNERS_CAN_ENABLE_PERSONALIZATION = Yes
in mm_cfg.py, but if this is a hosted cPanel installation, you probably can't do that.
One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way to prevent this but I can't find it!
No, there is not. Even if you enable Full Personalization, the list posting address will be put in Cc: to facilitate replying to the list so Reply-all will always include the list.
If this is an "announce" type list where members shouldn't post to the list, see <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030685> for how to set that up, but if it is a list where members are allowed to post, you can't prevent reply-all going to the list unless you moderate all posts and don't accept those you don't want on the list.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Hello David Elliott. On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:51:40 +0200, you wrote:
I am a newbie to Mailman and cpanel and I need some help, please. I have set up a mailing list for my tennis club (about 300 on list) and it seems to work ok BUT each recipient only sees the mailing list name rather than his own email name in the 'to' box. One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way to prevent this but I can't find it!
Set all members to "moderated", with the exception or those who may post to the list.
Christian
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org
On 3/27/2018 9:52 AM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
Hello David Elliott. On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:51:40 +0200, you wrote:
One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way to prevent this but I can't find it! Set all members to "moderated", with the exception or those who may post to the list.
Seems a bit harsh. Question is how you want the list to behave- to facilitate discussion or simply to make announcements. If the latter is preferred, then yes, setting all members to moderated will prevent them from posting.
OTOH, if the list's purpose is discussion, moderating all members becomes a bottleneck. In that case, user training is often the best route; explaining when it's appropriate to send to the list and when it's not. And there will -always- be errors. (Scholars differ on whether the default action should be reply-to-list or reply-to-sender and there's nothing to be gained by trying to resolve that here.)
Later,
z!
Hello Carl Zwanzig. On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:45:13 -0700, you wrote:
On 3/27/2018 9:52 AM, Christian F Buser via Mailman-Users wrote:
Hello David Elliott. On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:51:40 +0200, you wrote:
One of the recipients recently did a 'reply to all' and consequently sent his reply to the whole mailing list. I'm sure there must be a way to prevent this but I can't find it!
Set all members to "moderated", with the exception or those who may post to the list.
Seems a bit harsh. Question is how you want the list to behave- to facilitate discussion or simply to make announcements. If the latter is preferred, then yes, setting all members to moderated will prevent them from posting.
If a "reply ro all" results in a message post to the list (which is normal) and the list owner says this is unwanted - then I think it should behave as an announcement list only. Otherwise, the message post should be acceptable.
There is probably no easy way to distinguish between wanted / unwanted messages, if it is a discussion list.
OTOH, if the list's purpose is discussion, moderating all members becomes a bottleneck.
Of course, moderating too many users in a discussion list is a bad idea anyway.
In that case, user training is often the best route; explaining when it's appropriate to send to the list and when it's not. And there will -always- be errors. (Scholars differ on whether the default action should be reply-to-list or reply-to-sender and there's nothing to be gained by trying to resolve that here.)
On a discussion list, I would set default reply- to-list.
Christian
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Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org
I know im little late to your question. We are migrating our tennis website (https://supertennisracquet.com/) to another cpanel and would like to important email list of 2300 users with complete chat for each one. Should we proceed it or stick to current hosting?
On 3/17/22 13:12, jecer34861--- via Mailman-Users wrote:
I know im little late to your question. We are migrating our tennis website (https://supertennisracquet.com/) to another cpanel and would like to important email list of 2300 users with complete chat for each one. Should we proceed it or stick to current hosting?
If you can get your current host to provide you or the new host with the list's config.pck file an cumulative archive mbox file and the new host agrees to import them, then that's all, but you first have to talk with the new host to see if they agree to do this and then arrange to get the files from the old host.
-- 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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