[Mailman-Users] Question about umbrella lists

[Jon Carnes]

Phil, peruse the archives (for this month) and you will find all your
questions answered.

Below are some comments.
----- Original Message -----
From: <pvmailman at nekophile.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:20 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Question about umbrella lists


> I've only located to options relevant to this:
>
> Send password reminders to, eg, "-owner" address instead of directly to
> user.

The wording on this option is the worst.  Read it instead as: Is this an
Umbrella list?
  Answer yes if it is.

>
> Suffix for use when this list is an umbrella for other lists, according to
> setting of previous "umbrella_list" setting.
>
> I cannot find a setting to make this list an umbrella list.  Consequently,
> I receive "Message has implicit destination" errors whenever I post to the
> intended umbrella list.

Umbrella lists do not do what you expect.  I wrote an FAQ on umbrella lists
about a month ago.
  Umbrella lists allow folks to recieve multipul emails (if they are one
more than one list in the Umbrella...
  You must put the Umbrella list name into the proper field under Privacy
options for each of the lists in the Umbrella.  This allows the name to also
act as though it is a TO or CC directly to the list.

For more details, please see the archives

Jon Carnes