[Mailman-Developers] Mailman 3: some non member allowed to post on a mailing list

[Chris Nulk]

On 1/6/2016 3:20 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Jan 06, 2016, at 04:12 PM, Étienne Loks via Mailman-Developers wrote:
>
>> I'm beginning to use mailman 3.  One of the nice feature in mailman 2 was the
>> ability to allow specific non-member of a list to post in it.
>>
>> I don't find a way to do this in mailman 3 and as far as I understand this
>> page
>> http://www.pythonhosted.org/mailman/src/mailman/model/docs/membership.html it
>> seems that there is no automatic way of dealing with this.
> This is really what you want to read.  There's a new 'nonmember' rule that
> checks for posting conditions described here:
>
> http://mailman.readthedocs.org/en/release-3.0/src/mailman/chains/docs/moderation.html#nonmembers
>
> "Members" are users or addresses subscribed to mailing lists, and every member
> has a role and a moderation_action.  "Non-member" is a valid role.  So the
> idea is that you "subscribe" a non-member to a mailing list and give them a
> moderation_action of 'accept'.  Then their postings won't be held for
> approval.
>
> Mailman 3 also supports the legacy *_these_nonmember fields,
> e.g. accept_these_nonmembers, which must contain email addresses or, if the
> string starts with a ^ it's interpreted as a regular express, just as with
> Mailman 2.1.

Will Mailman 3 also accept a string starting with @ to be interpreted as 
a list to be used, just as with later versions of Mailman 2.1?

Thanks,
Chris