[Mailman-Users] How to allow mail from domain.edu but no others?

[Chris Waltham]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:

> Chris Waltham wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to allow both list members and non-list members to be able
>> to post to a mailing list I help admin. So, I want to allow
>> *@bowdoin.edu to post, but no other domain names. Is there an easy
>> way to do accomplish that? Looking at the web interface, I would
>> ordinarily use the member_posting_only feature but that won't work in
>> this case (because non-list members need to be able to post to the
>> list, so long as they're from *@bowdoin.edu).
>>
>> Is there a way to accomplish this without involving the MTA? This is
>> with mailman 2.0.12 (I know, I know!) on SPARC Solaris.
>
>
> It's trivial in Mailman 2.1. Just put
>
> ^.*@bowdoin\.edu
>
> in accept_these_nonmembers. In Mailman 2.0, the roughly corresponding
> list attribute is posters, but posters accepts only addresses, not
> regexps matching addresses.
>
> I think your choices are either upgrade or implement a custom handler.

Thanks for your reply, Mark. Because we're changing architectures  
(SPARC to Linux) and MTAs (postfix to Sendmail), we don't want to  
upgrade the existing 2.0.12 installation. So, I've been building a  
2.1.9 installation for the new Linux box and trying to get everything  
squared away before we change. There's a lot of lists & a lot of  
mail, so we want to do it once and do it right!

Thanks again for helping me apply band-aids to my current situation.


Chris

> There is information on custom handlers in Mailman 2.1 at
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py? 
> req=show&file=faq04.067.htp>.
> Mailman 2.0 is similar, except the handler pipeline is not in
> Defaults.py and thus cannot be manipulated in mm_cfg.py, nor is a list
> pipeline attribute recognized. Adding a handler to the pipeline
> requires modifying Handlers/HandlerAPI.py, at which point it might be
> easier to just modify Handlers/Approve.py to accept posts for that
> list from senders in that domain.
>
> -- 
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan