Thank you for the thorough and thoughtful response. I really thought as much, but wanted to check with the experts--you certainly all seem very knowledgeable and I appreciate your insights. Rasa
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Grant Taylor <gtay...@riverviewtech.net>wrote: > 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. . . . > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/rasa.isaacson%40gmail.com > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > ------------------------------------------------------ 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
