Hello everyone, I've been using mailman a while, but it's not my primary thing, and I'm a little lost on how I can configure things to get what I'm looking for. I strongly suspect that configuring things the right way can accomplish my goals.
Up until now many list participants have been clammoring for attachments, but in deference to some, we've prevented them. Now that the server has had its hardware upgraded and a new O/S installed (Fedora Core 14 with Mailman 2.1.13, and Postfix 2.7.1), I thought it'd be a good time to solve that problem. In sum, it would be _fantastic_ if list subscribers have an option to receive or not receive attachments on a per-user basis, much as users can now elect to recieve digests. But, as that option doesn't appear to exist, I was thinking I could facilitate the same effect by using two lists - maybe three. The "obvious" thing seemed to be to create a second list for no attachments, have it filter out the attachments, and have the post-to address subscribed to the main list - with the reply-to also set, of course. This is VERY cumbersome, though, as the people on the no-attach list need to be authorized to post on the primary list, and visa versa because it wouldn't be welcome to lose the original poster's information from the mail header. ...It would be great if any subscribe / unsubscribe events could cascade to the other list, but the only way I found how to do that is to follow the basic direction on this page: http://www.saas.nsw.edu.au/solutions/umbrella.html ... in particular the section on "parent-lists" except tailor it to this circumstance. In a word, it sucks, because a cron-job is a waste of resources and introduces an ugly time delay, but it's better than not being able to do it. Another issue has cropped up, too: I can't seem to get _any_ posts through with attachments intact! I think I've screwed the whole thing up with all the permutations in trying to get it working at all, that I'll have to drop the lists and start over. However, ANY insight into what it is exactly that's filtering out, for example, .jpg or .gif images, would be very welcome. ...It also seems to me that the ability to choose to reveive or filter out attachments on a per-user basis would be a grand feature - anyone else? Thank you so much in advance for your insights, suggestions, etc, Richard -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation rtroy at ScienceTools.com, http://ScienceTools.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
