[Mailman-Users] Whitelisting & Blacklisting domains

[Edward Ned Harvey]

Thanks, that's just what I was looking for.  ;-)
Now I'm just struggling with stupid python regular expressions.  ;-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:58 AM
> To: Edward Ned Harvey; mailman-users at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Whitelisting & Blacklisting domains
> 
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> >I am configuring a company private mailman server, where we want
> people
> >inside the company to be able to subscribe and unsubscribe freely...
> And
> >block any attempts from anyone outside the company.
> >
> >Is there some whitelisting/blacklisting/pattern matching capability,
> to
> >automatically accept subscriptions from within the company and deny
> from
> >outside?
> 
> 
> You can use the ban_list to block subscription from all but your
> domain. See
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2008-
> August/063139.html>.
> 
> Mailman 2.2 will have an auto approval feature which would allow you to
> require approval for subscriptions and exempt your domain from the
> requirement, but there is as yet no schedule for the release of 2.2,
> but the current branch at
> <https://code.launchpad.net/~mailman-coders/mailman/2.2> at rev 1006
> should be quite usable except for languages other than English.
> 
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