[Mailman-Users] nested lists

[Marc MERLIN]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:55:08PM -0700, Larry Guest wrote:
> I will be setting up mailman using lists to send mail to lists.  I only want
> lists members to be able to post.  So mailman needs to look down the chain
> of lists and make sure that the right people can posts to the list.  It must
> be able to do this but I am not 100% sure what to change in the config so it
> works. As an example "user1" needs to post to the "corp-eng" department for
> which he is a member in the "corp-eng-ca" office.  The post needs to hit
> everyone in the "corp-eng" lists.  The architecture will look like this.

You can't really do this.
Your best workaround is to dump the list membership of all sublists, and
subscribe all the members to the main list (do it with cron)
In that scenario, the mail would not trickle down to the sublists, it would
go to the users directly

Marc
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