[Mailman-Users] Limited posting

Amanda arandall at auntminnie.com
Tue Oct 2 18:11:48 CEST 2001


This sounds familiar! Only we get ~1800 per edition of newsletter... doctors really love their "Your message has been received" and "I'm out of the office today" vacation settings. :-)

Quick and dirty answer - you could set your Reply-To to some other location. That will of course direct not only the vacation messaging, receipt-acknowledgements, and other bargle to that reply-to, but also all the unsubscribes, tech-question mail, and whatnot. You *can * route it to the bitbucket if you like (e.g. an alias that points to /dev/null) or you can route it to a box you can
sift through (manually or otherwise) at your convenience.

Bounce and rejection notices should still come back to the apparent sender of the message (in your case, listowner), which can be handy if you want to count bounces (which we do).

=)
Amanda


Jim Kutter wrote:

> Hello again folks. You've all been tremendous help for me recently, but I have a another question.
>
> I am using mailman to manage a newsletter list (with some other lists - but that's the primary use), and obviously I don't want to allow public postings to a newsletter. So I set the e-mail address of the person who composes the newsletter as the only one allowed to post to the list. So, in order to protect my users from their users :) I set the list to hide the sender of the message.
>
> So here's the problem - the newsletters go out saying they're from newsletter-owner, and the admin of the list (me) gets all the "Out of office", "remove me pls!", "undeliverable" et al. This amounts to ~400 e-mails whenever the letter goes out...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> -jim
>
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