Creating a list of approved senders
I want to know if there is an way to create a list of approved senders that may be attached to multiple lists. I have about 120 lists, and I need to allow the 35 or so people in my office to be able to post to any of the 120 lists. The problem is that people come and go in the office so I would like a way to create a sort of "umbrella" list that could then be placed in the list explicitly approved senders. Therefore if someone left and a new person came to the office I could simply swap the names in one place, and have all 120 lists updated.
Thanks, Michael
There was a patch sent to the list about a year ago that allowed one to use addresses of the form +listname@our.host as automatically approved addresses. We applied it to our Mailman 2.1.1 here at the U of Utah School of Computing. It is real handy for professors to add the teaching assistant list as an approved poster for the class list. Basically the patch changes one section of code in Maillist.py so that if a +listname is found, it checks the membership of that list to see if the sender is a member.
We don't know yet if the patch will work with Mailman 2.1.4, I'll be testing it RealSoonNow.
Now, all I have to do is remember where I put the patch source....
mjb.
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Mark J. Bradakis
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