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.netwrote:
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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