[Mailman-Users] Umbrella list problem

Ron Jarrell jarrell at vt.edu
Wed Sep 6 17:05:51 CEST 2000


At 03:16 PM 9/6/00 +0100, you wrote:
>I'm just commissioning Mailman 2.0beta5 and I've got a problem using Umbrella lists.
>
>For experimental purposes I've created an list called umbrella whose members are two other Mailman lists called test1 and test2.
>
>I've verified that in the General Administrative options for the umbrella list the 'Send password reminders to, eg, "-owner" address instead of directly to user.' option has 'yes' checked and that the value for 'Suffix for use when this list is an umbrella for other lists, according to setting of previous "umbrella_list" setting.' option is '-owner'
>
>When I send mail to the umbrella list, the list managers of the member lists are each required to authorize the posting because the 'Message has implicit destination'.

Correct.  Because they're set so that mail that doesn't have their address in the header is held.

Either change the member lists to allow implicit destinations, or add the name of the umbrella list as a 
valid address that qualifies as not being implicit.
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