[Mailman-Developers] Need a patch written for 2.1 for post-only access.

[Marc Perkel]

I'm not a Python programmer but I need a patch written to add a feature that 
someone had written a patch for in version 2.0.

The patch called a "post-only" patch allowed me to create a list called 
"post-only" and members of this list were allowed to post to all other lists.

I am the systems administration for the Electronic Frontier Foundation 
(http://www.eff.org). We are currently running 2.0 with this patch. The reason 
we need it is because we are running about 65 internal lists and several of our 
members have multiple email addresses they post from. The burden of adding 
several hundred alieases and maintaining them across this many lists would be 
too much to deal with. I have upgraded to 2.1 on my own personal server and I 
feel that it would greatly benefit EFF to upgrade to 2.1. But - I can not do it 
until I have this patch.

I am therefore asking that someone out there write this patch. If you write it - 
I will publicly thank you in our newsletter that goes out to about 30,000 of our 
members. I offer 15 minutes of fame, and - you'll be helping us get important 
work done. EFF relies heavilly on Mailman.

Below is the code for the current patch for 2.0. It looks to me that doing this 
for 2.1 would be trivial for someone who knew what they were doing. I would 
REALLY appreciate it if someone were to volunteer to do this. Alternatively - I 
would be willing to pay someone out of my own pocket - and donate the code back 
to the public - if I can't find someone to do it for free.

Thanks in Advance

Marc Perkel
/root
EFF

Here's the current 2.0 patch

--- mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py.postonly	Tue Aug  1 19:02:28 2000
+++ mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py	Sat Aug  5 18:31:50 2000
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
  from Mailman import Message
  from Mailman import mm_cfg
  from Mailman import Utils
+from Mailman import MailList
+from Mailman import Errors
  from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog


@@ -104,6 +106,13 @@



+def CheckPostOnly (sender):
+    try:
+        m = MailList.MailList('post-only', lock=0)
+	return m.IsMember (sender)
+    except Errors.MMListError:
+        return 0
+
  def process(mlist, msg, msgdata):
      if msgdata.get('approved'):
          return
@@ -141,7 +150,8 @@
      if mlist.member_posting_only:
          posters = Utils.List2Dict(map(string.lower, mlist.posters))
          if not mlist.IsMember(sender) and \
-           not Utils.FindMatchingAddresses(sender, posters):
+           not Utils.FindMatchingAddresses(sender, posters) and \
+	   not CheckPostOnly(sender):
              # the sender is neither a member of the list, nor in the list of
              # explicitly approved posters
              hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, NonMemberPost)