Grant Taylor wrote: >Is it possible to post messages to a members only list with out Mailman >validating the sender when posting with a known (specific to this >purpose) method?
Yes. >Now for the back story. I am setting up a mailing list that is using a >(Usenet) news to email gateway on the news server and having it send / >post to a mailing list. I had the system set to accept messages from >unknown senders (any one in the world can post to the news group(s)) but >messages were still being moderated because Mailman did not see the >mailing list in the To: or CC: fields. Thus I had an accident where the >mailing list sent moderation messages to lots of people. If you use Mailman's news -> mail gateway to gate messages from a news group on a news server to the Mailman list. you won't have this problem. >Is there an option that can be passed to the mm-handler (or comparable) >that will tell it to not apply the usual restrictions that probably >should be on the mailing list? If the message to Mailman contains a Approved: password header where password is the list admin or list moderator password, all the normal holds and moderation checks except header_filter_rules will be bypassed. The header will be removed before the message is distributed. Note that this has nothing to do with mm-handler or other delevery to mailman method. Even with mm-handler, delivery to Mailman is still via the mail/mailman wrapper, so mm-handler has no way to manipulate the message's metadata which is initialized by the post script invoked by the wrapper. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
