[Mailman-Users] How can one forward a rejected message to the listowner?

[Mark Sapiro]

Sagy Volkov wrote:
>
>Mailman version version 2.1.9.cp2, this is running on a hosted environment.
>Basically my goal is simple, I need to reject/discard/not allow any non
>members from sending emails to my mailing list email address, but, I also
>need to the list mods to receive all reject/discard/not allowed emails.
>
>When looking at "*Privacy options" -> "Senders filters" I have the option to
>send a reject no***tice to non members, but I only have an option to send
>discard posts to the list mods, no options to send automatic reply to
>discard emails, so it looks like I have two halves of a solution but no way
>to "connect" these halves.


I'm a bit confused. You seem to be saying that either 'reject' or
'discard' of a non-member post is acceptable, but then you say you
want a notice to the poster which implies 'discard' is not acceptable.

Anyway, you can set forward_auto_discards to Yes, to forward discarded
(but not rejected) messages to the list owners and moderators.
Messages from nonmembers which are discarded because the sender is in
discard_these_nonmembers or generic_nonmember_action is discard will
be forwarded. There are no standard settings to forward to the owners
and moderators those messages which are 'rejected'.	


>I ask the company who's hosting this machine, if I can forward the mailman
>email address to another address (either some external address outside of
>the list or one of the members) and they say it can not be done.
>Not having full access to the system (I run this thing through cPanel), I'm
>a bit confused about their reply.


Their reply can mean anything from they don't know how to they don't
want to for various reasons. Also see <http://wiki.list.org/x/sYA9>.

If you want the owners/moderators to see every non-member post, have
you considered 'holding' them instead? You could also set General
Options->max_days_to_hold to some non-zero value to automatically
discard them eventually.

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