[Mailman-Users] disable unsub from a list?

Ralf Hildebrandt R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de
Sat Apr 1 15:05:10 CEST 2000


On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:38:47PM -0800, Dave Robbins wrote:

> Because I currently have sendmail lists where users cannot unsubscribe
> (and are not allowed to), is there any mechanism for disabling a
> members's ability to do this?   For example, a list to deliver
> emergency notices would not work too well if members were permitted 
> to unsubscribe.  At the same time, however, I desire the no-posting
> from non-members.

I think in such a case you can count on the sanity of the users, can you?

A solution would be to restrict/disallow posting to the list management
address (list-request) from within sendmail (access.db)

Also put some access restrictions on the web pages of the Mailman
Webinterface.

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Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
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