On 5/2/2010 12:10 PM, rpsch...@knology.net wrote: > > This is what I'm trying to do. User x sends a post to listy. User z > receives the post from the list. > > I want user Z only to be able to reply to user x and otherwise to be > required to send a new, origional, not-preply message to the list.
Thanks for the explanation. The short answer is you can't remove the list posting address from all the headers. Normally it will be in the To: header or Cc: header and 'reply-all' will include the list. If the personalization options are available to you, you can set the list(s) to Full Personalization which will replace the To: header with one that is To: the recipient of the message, but this will not help because Mailman will in this case add a Cc: to the list posting address in order to facilitate including the list in replies. Mailman works this way because it is designed mainly for discussion lists where people carry out a multi-way conversation on the list. Thus, the only thing you can do is as has been suggested, apply header_filter_rules to not accept posts that contain In-Reply-To: and/or References: headers, or use max_num_recipients = 2 to hold all posts with more than one recipient. To this latter suggestion, you replied: > That didn't work because the first message sent will go to yourself > and the mailing list which will be blocked. If you tell it not to send > it to yourself, the first message will send. If you try to reply to all > to this message it will also be sent because the reply to will only have > the member list. This reply raises other questions. The first sentence seems to indicate you want to send to the list with Cc: to yourself, and yes, such a post would be held as it would have 2 recipients. However, the last sentence indicates you are concerned about people replying-all to their own posts. Is this a real concern, or is it just something you encountered in testing with replying to your own post? I.e., normally, a reply-all would include the list and the poster and would be held for 2 recipients. Only in the case where you are replying-all to your own post and not editing the recipients, would the post have only one recipient. Of course with a recipient limit, the user could still do a reply-all and then remove all but the list address from the addressees before sending, and this reply would go to the list if you were only checking the number of recipients, so it seems if you want to block all non-original messages, header_filter_rules would be the way to go. -- 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 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
