I'm migrating our site from ListProc to Mailman and am in the
process of wrapping my head around the Mailman way of doing
things.
For almost 20 years we have had the established email address
[email protected] as *the* way to contact your friendly local
neighborhood mailing list site administrator. ListProc, as part
of the list configuration, made it easy to specify this already
established address as the single contact point for the site
admin for all automatically generated emails.
With Mailman I am seeing the convention of using the site-wide
mailing list's owner address for contacting the site admin, both
in messages for list owners...
From: [email protected]
To: joe list owner
Subject: Your new mailing list: my.list
The mailing list `my.list' has just been created for you. The
following is some basic information about your mailing list.
:
:
Please address all questions to [email protected].
...and in messages sent to subscribers....
From: [email protected]
To: mary list subscriber
Subject: lists.unh.edu mailing list memberships reminder
This is a reminder, sent out once a month, about your lists.unh.edu
mailing list memberships.
:
:
If you have questions, problems, comments, etc, send them to
[email protected]. Thanks!
But if you go to the top-level listinfo web page, you see the
suggestion:
If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact
[email protected].
This address in particular does the user no good since, if
configured as suggested, the site-wide mailing list does not
accept non-subscriber postings.
From: [email protected]
To: fred random user
Subject: How do I...
Your message has been rejected, probably because you are not
subscribed to the mailing list and the list's policy is to
prohibit non-members from posting to it. If you think that
your messages are being rejected in error, contact the mailing
list owner at [email protected].
I searched the archives for more information about the role of
the site-wide mailing list, and found this thread that is related
to my issue. It is unanswered as far as I can tell.
https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/msg25082.html
So here is what I want to do. Any place that mailman would
direct the user to the site administrator, I would like it to use
our long established address for that function, and not
mailman-owner, and certainly not the mailman list posting address
if that is not what it is suppose to be used for. At this point
the only thing I can find that is relevant is changing the name
of the site-wide list, but then I would still get the
auto-generated email address of "[email protected]"
which is not desirable, and I would have to open up postings to
the world to the site-wise list which does not seem to be the
recommended practice.
Any help or suggestions would be welcomed.
...BC
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