Re: [mlmmj] mlmmj wishlist request

["webmaster@vlsc.org" <webmaster@vlsc.org>]

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Thanks Ben!

I'll take a look at this - I'm glad to see something like this is 
already there.

Philip

On 2/3/2015 3:57 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> 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
>>
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