Hi, I manage a mailing list site with mailman, and I recently had the following problem:
Lets say I have a list called [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 3 members: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] m3 has its vacation script turned on. m1 sends an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so m2,m3 and m1 itself receive the email. m3's vacation script replies to m1 and to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so m1 gets 2 copies of the reply (one directly and one through [EMAIL PROTECTED]), m2 gets a copy and m1 gets a copy of its own reply which in turn will be replied by its vacation script and so on. So my mail server ends up sending a lot of useless emails. How can I stop this situation? I know I can reject or hold emails based on some header pattern matching, but I cannot do this on a case by case basis, not all vacation scripts behave the same, so this is not a solution for my problem. I was thinking maybe there's a way to configure mailman so that if m1 sends an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailman will not send a copy of the email back to m1 just because m1 is a list member. Also, is there a way to limit the number of postings each member is allowed to sent per day? Thanks, -- Gustavo M. ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
