[Mailman-Users] rejecting non-subscriber postings

kiev1 Kiev1 at web-standart.net
Sat Oct 19 19:22:16 CEST 2002


I unfortunately (((
I unfortunately as have not found a way to make admin-post only list and
anybody and could not answer me - how to make as well as in majordomo in a
body of the letter " Aproved: password "  (((

> Hi Erez,
>
> Set your list posting to members only under the Privacy section.  That'll
do
> exactly what you are asking for.
>
> Take care,
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erez Zadok" <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu>
>
>
> > On one mailman list I maintain, I get spams submitted to the list.
> Spammers
> > find out about that list and I can't do much about that.  However, when
> such
> > a spam comes to me, it gets queued by mailman and I, the list-admin,
have
> to
> > go and manually reject/discard those spams.  It's becoming an annoying
> > chore.  I'd like to be able to just configure Mailman to discard/reject
> ALL
> > non-subscriber emails, and have mailman send them back a note saying
they
> > have to subscribe first.  I didn't see such a feature off hand in
Mailman.
> > Is there? (maybe part of the 2.1 anti-spam features?)
> >
> > Occasionally a non-subscriber really asks an appropriate question on my
> > list.  I'm willing to accept that those people will have to subscribe
> first;
> > it's the price they have to pay --- but it'll save me time.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Erez.






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