[Mailman-Users] umbrella list issues

[Pug Bainter]

James Ashton (James.Ashton at anu.edu.au) said something that sounded like:
> Am I correct in assuming that mailman (as of 2.0.5) doesn't 
> treat umbrella lists differently except in the way it addresses reminders to 
> the list owner? 

This is true.

> If so this would seem to have some major drawbacks:
> *  Duplicate emails to members of multiple sub-lists
> *  Modification of the subject line and addition of footers by multiple 
> lists in a list hierarchy.
> *  Requirement to authorise messages to umbrella lists multiple times.

Correct on all three accounts. This is how I get around these issues:

#!/bin/csh
foreach name (`cat /opt/depot/mailman/announce.src`)
  /opt/depot/mailman/bin/list_members $name >> /etc/mailman.announce
end
sort -iu -o /etc/mailman.announce /etc/mailman.announce
/opt/depot/mailman/bin/sync_members -w=n -d=n -a=n -f /etc/mailman.announce umbrella_list >& /dev/null

This allows me to keep a list of sub-lists - one per line in the file
/opt/depot/mailman/announce.src - and to sync them up to the umbrella list.
This umbrella list does not allow anyone to subscribe to it and all
posts to it are moderated.

I don't delete the master file /etc/mailman.announce so that I can look
through it if needed.

Ciao,

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