On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:10:44AM -0500, Pug Bainter wrote: > Good Morning, > > I am in the process of converting my site over from Majordomo to > Mailman. In the process I have hit two snags that I can't figure out > how to get around. > > 1) When adding all the members, they are getting one password per > list. This seems highly undesirable. Is there a way for a user, or > preferably the site administrator, to synchronize their passwords > for all the lists to be the same? Unfortunately, no. If the user subscribes, yes, if you subscribe them, no (you'd have to write a program to modify the lists' config.db and change the autogenerated passwords to set ones) > 2) How can I setup an umbrella list with the following features: > > 1) The lists that it is an umbrella for only allow member posting > 2) The umbrella is moderated > 3) The umbrella posts through the lists once it is moderated *without* > the need for the list admin for each sub-list to approve it > 4) The users only get *one* copy of the mail message Yep, I do all that, but it required me to have mailman look at the envelope sender for moderation instead of the header sender (prefered), and then in the sub-lists, I was able to say that: privacy/addresses accepted for posting: umbrella-name-admin@yourdomain privacy/alias names: umbrella-name Disable password reminders on umbrella, and set envelope sender froms in ~mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users