Another sneaky solution is to make the return address on the mailing
list the unsubscribe address.

Its eliminated people trying to post for me *eg*

Matt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:53 AM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      Re: About mailing lists
> 
> Tero Niemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >I want to create a mailing list which only sends messages to users
> from
> >the listkeeper. So I don't want
> >anyone to be able to reply to list.   So: How to create announcement
> >list with qmail?
> 
> If you want users to be able to subscribe and unsubscribe themselves,
> you should use an MLM like ezmlm.
> 
> For a quick 'n' dirty list, install mess822 and create a
> ~alias/.qmail-listname containing:
> 
> |if echo "`/usr/local/bin/822field From`" |grep -q
> "listowner@listdomain" ; then exit 0; else echo "you're not authorized
> to send to this address"; exit 100; fi
> &user@host
> &user2@host2
> etc.
> 
> And you can populate >~alias/.qmail-listname-owner to redirect
> bounces.
> 
> -Dave

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