From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Schmidt Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:57:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [mlmmj] mlmmj wishlist request Message-Id: <54D16061.1000702@yahoo.com.au> List-Id: References: <54D14B2F.3010003@vlsc.org> In-Reply-To: <54D14B2F.3010003@vlsc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org Hi, Philip! Mlmmj can do what you want already, I believe. Just add a subscriber of the 'nomail' type using the -n option to mlmmj-sub or by sending mail to listname+subscribe-nomail@domain.tld. Nomail users can post to the list, but posts are not distributed to them. See the third paragraph of the description here: http://mlmmj.org/docs/mlmmj-sub/ And the help list text (which you get by sending mail to listname+help@domain.tld) also contains information on this (though in source form, not the most readable): http://mlmmj.org/hg/listtexts/file/904ef6171308/en/help Best regards, Ben. On 4/02/15 9:26 AM, webmaster@vlsc.org wrote: > 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 >