[Mailman-Users] WishList Items (Forced Msg from Digest, Confirm. of Approval)
Jeff Barger
jeff at look.net
Thu Aug 26 18:27:59 CEST 2004
On Aug 26, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Mark T. Valites wrote:
> The department that is responsible for the list is leary of making all
> the
> members of the list digest members, in case an important message needs
> to
> be sent immeadiately. Even though we have a non-digested emergency
> "911"
> list synchronized with the same recipients, they have no desire to use
> it.
> If the list members were all set to digest members and the list owner
> had
> the capability to force out an individual message immeadiately instead
> of
> when the digest ran, they could deal with having most messages go out
> in a
> digest. Pipe dream?
You _can_ force the digest to go out, if that helps your situation any.
Otherwise you're better off using the '911' list.
> The head of our department periodically sends out email to mailing
> lists
> for each of our residence halls on campus. All the lists are set up to
> hold messages from non-list members. Not being a list member, she can't
> tell if/when the message has been approved. Is there any way to set up
> an
> existing mailman (2.1.5) install to send her acknowledgements of
> if/when
> her messages were approved without adding her as a member?
Not that I know of. You can try adding her as a member and turn on her
'nomail' and 'ack' flags. That would prevent her from receiving list
messages but she would still be ACK'd, I think. Worth a try anyway.
> While more of a SSH issue than a mailman issue, perhaps someone here
> has
> run across this issue and can help me out. I would like to set up a
> cronjob on a remote machine to periodically scp a bunch of files *to*
> my
> mailman machine with key based authentication. The key based
> authentication fails because of the setgid bit on mailman's home
> directory. I realize I could either 'pull' the files from the remote
> machine or set up an additional user for the remote scp user to use
> when
> scp-ing in, but neither of these solutions is optimal. Is there a
> better
> way?
Of course I'm not sure exactly what you're doing, but I would script it
out to where I was pulling the files, checking the integrity (because
you never know) and then mv/chown/chmod to the final location (and
keep a backup of the old file as well).
-Jeff
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