[Mailman-Users] Need ability to allow emails with specificsubject line

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Tue Feb 19 21:07:45 CET 2008


Savoy, Melinda wrote:

>You are correct to say that I do not know the email addresses that could
>possibly use the form.  
>
>Thanks anyway.   


Did you read the rest of my reply quoted below? It contains a solution
(if you still want to do it after reading Cyndi's reply). If you don't
understand the solution, but are interested, please ask specific
questions about it.


>
>If your web form actually generates the email to the list, you can
>generate it with an
>
>Approved: <password>
>
>header, where <password> is the list admin or list moderator password
>(moderator would be safer in case it gets inadvertently exposed via your
>web application).
>
>This 'pre-approves' the mail and bypasses the membership tests. The
>header is removed from the mail to the list members so the password
>isn't exposed that way.

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