Thanks Bob! Your suggestions fixed both of my problems.
Eric Bob Weissman sent this on Jul 15: >At 07:55 AM 7/15/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I have a mailman list that contains the address of three other mailmain >>lists. My hope is for this to allow me to reach all people by the main >>list, or certain groups of people by one of the sub-lists. Here is an >>example: >> >> |--members-faculty >> | >>members-all---|--members-staff >> | >> |--members-students >> >>This would allow me to send mail to everyone, just faculty, just staff, or >>just students. However, there are two problems with this approach. > >Mailman 2.0.x is not particularly good at umbrella lists (especially if there's >overlap among the sub-lists). > >>1) I can send to each of these lists individually, but when I send to the >>members-all list, each sub-list holds the message for approval. I have >>added my email address to the list of "Addresses of members accepted for >>posting", and member_posting_only is set to "yes". My understanding is >>that even though I do not belong to either of these lists, I will be >>allowed to send to all of them. And this is indeed the case, as long as I >>am not sending via members-all. My guess is that mailman is the re-sender >>in such a case, and is not allowed to post without permission. Is this >>the case? And if so, how do I change it? > >Have you got require_explicit_destination set on the Privacy Options page? If so, you >need to add members-all@your\.domain to the acceptable_addresses field for each >sub-list. > >>2) Once I approve the messages to be sent to the sub-lists, the subject >>line lists both list names like this: >> >> [members-all][members-x] my subject >> >>where x is either faculty, staff, or student. I would like each sub-list >>to show its name ONLY if it is mailed to directly, but not if it is mailed >>to from the main list. I don't think this is possible, but if it is, >>please let me know. > >Not possible without serious code-hacking. What I suggest is eliminating the tag from >the "all" list. Then subscribers will see only the tag for the list they are on. In a >similar vein, you probably want to remove any footer information pointing to the >"all" list, since subscribers can't maintain their own data on that list anyway. > >In fact, there may be no need to have members-all be a full-fledged list. Perhaps it >can be a simple alias pointing to the sub-lists. > >- Bob > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
