Quoting Dave Margolis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I'm trying to configure Mailman (ver. 2.1.3) to be as simple as a
one-way mailing list as possible.
Answers below are based on 2.1.4, which differs only trivially.
I'd like to allow the owner to send monthly newsletter style messages to the mailing list. I want users to be able to subscribe/unsubscribe per normal.
So far I've figured everything I want out except for the most obvious
thing: turning [off] the ability for the subscribers to send messages
to the list...
Yes, [off] was missing. That's just me typing too fast. Thanks.
(I'm assuming the omitted word, above, was "off". If not, please clarify.)
Under Privacy Options, pick Sender Filters. Set item "By default,
should new list member postings be moderated?" to "Yes". This is the
most-important setting in configuring a Mailman mailing list to be
announce-only.
Set item "Action to take when a moderated member posts to the list" to either "Hold" (default) or "Reject", per your preference. (You could alternatively pick "Discard", but that's a bit too BOfHish even for me.) This setting specifies how subscribers' posts should be treated if they're not on the very short list of approved posters.
If you use "Reject", then type some explanatory text into item "Text to include in any rejection notice to be sent to moderated members who post to this list" to remind subscribers that the mailing list is announce-only.
I would recommend that you set item "Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit action is defined" to "Discard", because 99% of such postings will be spam. (Bouncing spam is no longer defensible, in 2004, given the ubiquity of forged headers in such mail.)
If you do that, also set item "Should messages from non-members, which are automatically discarded, be forwarded to the list moderator?" to "No", to preserve your sanity.
You'll want to remove the "mod" (moderated) flag from your own
subscribed address[es], the ones from which you'll be posting (under
Membership Management, Membership List). If you or other authorised
parties prefer to post from non-subscribed addresses, add them to item
"List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically
accepted" on the aforementioned Privacy Options, Sender Filters page.
There will only be one "announcer" (the guy I'm setting this up for), and me involved in this thing, but that's a great tip either way.
I'd also be nice if it was obvious that it wasn't a public list from
the user's perspective (I suppose I can add a note about this to the
public html pages myself).
I would strongly recommend that. Remember, you can use the
administrative "Edit the public HTML pages" link for that function.
Note that you can (and should) remind users about the list's
announce-only nature on (1) the General list information page, (2) the Subscribe results page, and (3) the User specific options page.
Yup, will do, and thanks again! Dave
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