[Mailman-Users] Reject non-member postings.

Jim Trigg jtrigg at huiekin.org
Wed Jan 17 23:02:39 CET 2001


At 04:46 PM 1/17/2001, you wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:11:18PM +0100, Evilio del Rio wrote:
> > Is there any way to configure a list to ALWAYS reject ANY non-member
> > posting to a restricted list. I do not want them to be held for approval,
> > just reject, full stop.
>
>No, or at least not entirely within Mailman.  ISTR someone proposing a trick
>with dummy list addresses and a bcc: to the list using a real address which
>only the admins know about, but that's the closest I've seen to a way to do
>automatic rejection of non-admin mail.

But he's not looking for auto-rejection of non-admin mail, just of 
non-subscriber mail.  However, what you seem to be saying is that there's 
no way to auto-reject any mail; any rejected mail will always get held for 
an admin to decide what to do.  Is that a true statement?

Jim Trigg





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