Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> User Aliases
> -------------
> I'd like to be able to enter (and/or allow the user to enter) other
> email addresses that if they sens email from the other address they have
> the same membership privileges as the original member email address.
> Thus if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is in the list but the email comes from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> then it is treated the same. Ideally - the user could make these aliases
> and it would apply to all lists the user is a member of.
What we do for gnome.org is allow people to subscribe addresses to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], and any address subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can post to any list without being subscribed to it.
(Trivial and hackish patch against 2.0.x attached)
Low tech, but works.
Regards,
Owen
--- mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py.postonly Tue Aug 1 19:02:28 2000
+++ mailman-2.0beta5/Mailman/Handlers/Hold.py Sat Aug 5 18:31:50 2000
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
from Mailman import Message
from Mailman import mm_cfg
from Mailman import Utils
+from Mailman import MailList
+from Mailman import Errors
from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog
@@ -104,6 +106,13 @@
+def CheckPostOnly (sender):
+ try:
+ m = MailList.MailList('post-only', lock=0)
+ return m.IsMember (sender)
+ except Errors.MMListError:
+ return 0
+
def process(mlist, msg, msgdata):
if msgdata.get('approved'):
return
@@ -141,7 +150,8 @@
if mlist.member_posting_only:
posters = Utils.List2Dict(map(string.lower, mlist.posters))
if not mlist.IsMember(sender) and \
- not Utils.FindMatchingAddresses(sender, posters):
+ not Utils.FindMatchingAddresses(sender, posters) and \
+ not CheckPostOnly(sender):
# the sender is neither a member of the list, nor in the list of
# explicitly approved posters
hold_for_approval(mlist, msg, msgdata, NonMemberPost)
