Central address for handling requests?
Is there a way to setup Mailman for a single email address (eg. listrequest@host.com)? My company used to run listproc, which has a single email address to handle all incoming subscription requests, which is very nice when the email interface needs to be as user-friendly as is possible. Is there a way to accomplish this in Mailman instead of having separate <list>-request@host.com addresses?
Andrew Martin martin@trace.wisc.edu
Not a problem... Use procmail. Setup your "listrequest" email address to parce the incoming mail based on the subject, and forward the request to each of the various "mylist-request" aliases. Have the default fall through rule be an auto-response with a general help message about the use of your "listrequest" alias.
This setup allows list-request to still work for any list *and* allows you to send commands to one central address for any list requests. Of course this is not an automated thing. You'll have to set it up and maintain it.
If you are running on a Unix-type server, you probably already have procmail installed and running.
Good Luck - Jon Carnes
--- Original Message: Thursday 14 March 2002 11:31 pm ---
Is there a way to setup Mailman for a single email address (eg. listrequest@host.com)? My company used to run listproc, which has a single email address to handle all incoming subscription requests, which is very nice when the email interface needs to be as user-friendly as is possible. Is there a way to accomplish this in Mailman instead of having separate <list>-request@host.com addresses?
Andrew Martin martin@trace.wisc.edu
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