Y'all, After much head-banging, I have *finally* figured out how to configure Mailman 2.1 to do a newsletter-only style list. I have updated FAQ 3.11 to reflect my findings. My initial assumptions are:
* postings to the list by nonmembers should be rejected. * postings to the list by subscribers should also be rejected, politely. * The moderator should be able to send email to the list and just have it go out the door, without having to screw with "tend administrative requests" on the admin webpage. The easiest way to configure a list to do this is to dump out the configuration settings via "config_list", edit the file, and reload the file into Mailman. Here are the steps, assuming "foobar" is the list name and "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is the moderator: config_list -o foobar foobar Edit the file "foobar" and change the following options: default_member_moderation = 1 member_moderation_action = 1 generic_moderation_action = 2 moderator = ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]'] member_moderation_notice = 'Sorry, subscribers cannot post to this list.' In member_moderation_notice, put in whatever polite note that you deem appropriate for rejecting a subscriber's attempted post. The default message is rude and should be changed. Now reload your changes from the file: config_list -i foobar foobar One final step is needed so that the moderator can post to the list without doing "tend administrative requests". Go to the admin webpage for the list and UNCHECK the "mod" button for the moderator ONLY. All subscribers to the list should have the "mod" button turned ON, except for the moderator. This assumes that the moderator is also subscribed to the list. ----------------------------------- Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D Senior UNIX Sysadmin and Email Guru Information Technology Services Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill, Waterville ME, 04901-8842 phone: 207-872-3659 (fax = 3076) ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
