David Lee wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >My understanding is that to get this email straight through using the >"Approved:" mechanism all those lists (i.e. their superset) would >currently need to share a common password. (I haven't seen documented the >ability to have multiple one-per-list, "Approved:" lines.)
You are correct. The alternative is to send 10 individual posts, each to a single list with that list's approval. >Hence my suggestion of a person's (single) personal "sender" password into >the overall system, entitling them to send to those Mailman lists whose >"authorised_senders" includes them. This might be viewed as (very >roughly) analogous to single sign-on. We definitely want to move towards a single 'user identity/account' per person per site with a single authorization and multiple email addresses and subscriptions. Quoting from the todo list <http://www.list.org/todo.html> # Have one account per user per site, with multiple email addresses and fallbacks. Allow them to subscribe whichever address they want to whichever list, with different options per subscription. Given that infrastructure, it seems simple to implement the authorized poster concept. In the mean time, I think you could accomplish much of what you want with a custom handler. It would need to have access to a user file which defined the user's capabilities and posting password, but it would be simple for it to then use some feature of the message to validate the poster, remove the secret information and set the approved flag in the message metadata (not the Approved: header, but the flag that the Approved header causes to be set.) See Mailman/Handlers/Approve.py for an example of doing approval and see <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.067.htp> for more on custom handlers. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
