I've been successfully
running a handful of small mlmmj lists for several months now, on
an eApps centOS cloud server, running sendmail. I have a
question/request related to a feature that I used to exploit when
working with the old majordomo mailing list tool:
When using majordomo it was possible to configure a "closed" list,
in terms of senders and receivers of posts (functionally similar
to how mlmmj works using the "subonlypost" control file), while at
the same time it was also possible to configure a secondary file
(containing addresses) that could only submit posts, but not
receive any posts.
Perhaps a simple example can illustrate how this might be used:
Acme Services is run by a board of directors, and the board has
their own closed mlmmj list. There are also several dept managers
that work for Acme Services, and the board would like these
managers to be able to communicate directly with all the members
of the board by simply sending an email to the board list. On the
other hand, the board doesn't want the managers receiving any of
the board list posts.
There are several other scenarios that might benefit from this
ability - in fact I'd say it might find many uses, and the varied
possibilities are likely the reason majordomo had this feature.
I haven't seen anything that indicates this is somehow currently
possible with mlmmj, so I apologize in advance for missing the
notes on how to do this currently, if its already available.
With mlmmj, I could envision having another directory similar to
the existing "subscribers.d", that would contain file(s) of
addresses that only had permission to "submit" posts.
Or perhaps there could be some way to flag or code files contained
in the existing
"subscribers.d" directory that would indicate if the addresses it
contains are only "submitters" or only " receivers" or both
"submitters and receivers".
I haven't looked under the hood far enough to know how simple or
complicated this might be to implement with mlmmj (assuming its
not there now) so I'm just sharing the thought, in the hope that
someone might be intrigued by the idea of adding this feature, and
hoping it would not be difficult to implement.
Philip Parshley