On 04/05/09 08:07, Rasa Isaacson wrote:
Our organization wants to set up a mailing list in a very generic
fashion. We would like to list the board members as approved members
using the generic emails we have set up:
So you are wanting to use ""positional addresses, not personal addresses
(with names). That in and of its self should be fine.
We have a forwarder set up through our website (hosted by
Lunarpages--don't know if that matters) that associates the generic
email address to the personal email account for the board member, so
if a email sent to presid...@ourwebsite.org is received it's
forwarded to the appropriate personal account.
*nod* ... One possible implementation of a typical configuration.
Is there something analogous in mailman to associate a personal email
account with the generic account on incoming posts to the board? Like
an alias, but looking at the "From:" field and translating it to the
generic account like presid...@ourwebsite.org.
It sounds to me like you are wanting to translate the From: address of
messages as they pass through the email system in to Mailman. I.e.
translate from:
barack.ob...@whitehouse.gov
To:
presid...@whitehouse.gov
(For the sake of conversation I'm presuming that this is indeed what you
are wanting.)
I don't think that Mailman its self has (or should have) the ability to
do what you are wanting.
That being said I don't see any reason that you could not put a shim /
wrapper script in between your mail server and Mailman. I know that it
would be entirely possible to throw together some Perl code running a
Regular Expression to translate barack.obama to president. I.e.
$From =~ m/^To: barack.ob...@whitehouse.gov/To:
presid...@whitehouse.gov/i;
I hope this makes sense. Thanks.
I think I understood what you are wanting to do. Presuming that I did,
the short answer is that (to the best of my knowledge) Mailman does not
include support to do what you want to do and probably should not
either. I think you will be much better off doing this out side of Mailman.
Now, if you are just wanting your board members to be able to send with
either their personal addresses -OR- their positional addresses all you
need to do is add both addresses to the mailing list (and set one to not
receive email) as well as authorizing them to send.
Grant. . . .
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