[Mailman-Users] Mailman-Users Digest, Vol 111, Issue 16

[Michael Probst]

Thanks for your reply.

The issue is that only employees of member companies shall be able to
join any of the mailing lists.

In the first step we approve only subscriptions with email accounts from
a member company. Someone with a subscription can then later on change
his mail address to one of another company that might not be a member
company of our organization. We would like to approve such changes or
disable this option.


Am 14.05.2013 17:26, schrieb mailman-users-request at python.org:
> On 5/13/13 11:06 AM, Michael Probst wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > I hope this is the right mailing list to ask this kind of questions.
>> >
>> > We run mailing lists with mailman for an organization with multiple
>> > groups and
>> > each group has its own mailing list(s). Our policy requires that
>> > subscriptions are
>> > approved by a moderator.
>> >
>> > However, we got requests from people to change their email address
>> > for all their subscriptions. We found that people can do so themselves
>> > via the web interface, but we could not find out how to let a moderator
>> > approve this change.
>> >
>> > Required sequence:
>> >
>> > * user changes his email address for all his subscriptions (works)
>> > * owner of new email address confirms (works)
>> > * moderator approves (not found)
>> >
>> > Is this possible with mailman and if yes what version of mailman is
>> > required?
>> >
>> > If not is there any way to remove this option from the member page, so
>> > they can still unsubscribe,
>> > watch the archive, etc.?
>> >
>> > Can a list adminstrator change the mail address of a user for all of his
>> > subscriptions at once?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> > Michael
>> >
> As to a list administrator changing the mail address of a user for all
> of his subscriptions, that isn't allowed as a list administrator can
> only change things relating to "his" list, so the "all subscriptions"
> option is blocked for people logging in with list administrator access.
> 
> As to approving change of address requests, are you sure this is really
> needed? Normally subscription approval is used to allow the list to only
> go to "approved" people, so when the subscription comes in, you approve
> the PERSON to receive the list, if they then chose to receive the list
> at a different address, that shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> -- Richard Damon


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