Cannot setup announce-only mailing list
Dear all,
I don't understand how to set up an "announce only" mailing list using Postorius Version 1.2.4.
What I do is the following:
- Click on "Create New List"
- From "List Style", select "Announce only mailing list style."
- Fill all other fields in the form
- Click "Create list"
At this point people can subscribe to the newly created announce mailing list. If they add themselves they end up in "List Members", and if they email the announce mailing list, their email is relayed to all other members, just like a normal mailing list :/
Moreover, subscribers get this message, inviting them to post to the announce only mailing list:
Welcome to the "Test-announce" mailing list!
To post to this list, send your email to:
test-announce@lists.dist0rtion.com
Of course, I want to keep this mailing list "read only" for members, and I want only selected people to post to that mailing list.
Any idea on how to achieve that?
Best, Alberto
On 1/30/20 5:42 AM, Alberto Granzotto wrote:
Of course, I want to keep this mailing list "read only" for members, and I want only selected people to post to that mailing list.
Any idea on how to achieve that?
There is only one difference between the Discussion and Announce
list styles, and that is for an Announce list, the allow_list_posts
attribute is set to False. In turn, all that does is cause the
List-Post: header to be set to NO rather than the list posting address.
There is a discussion at <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030685> of how to set up an announce list for Mailman 2.1. Most of this translates straightforwardly to Mailman 3, although not all the relevant settings are exposed in Postorius.
In short, you need to set this up manually using things like moderation settings and custom templates for the welcome message.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
On 1/30/20 5:42 AM, Alberto Granzotto wrote:
Of course, I want to keep this mailing list "read only" for members, and I want only selected people to post to that mailing list.
Any idea on how to achieve that?
There is only one difference between the
DiscussionandAnnouncelist styles, and that is for anAnnouncelist, theallow_list_postsattribute is set toFalse. In turn, all that does is cause the List-Post: header to be set to NO rather than the list posting address.There is a discussion at <https://wiki.list.org/x/4030685> of how to set up an announce list for Mailman 2.1. Most of this translates straightforwardly to Mailman 3, although not all the relevant settings are exposed in Postorius.
In short, you need to set this up manually using things like moderation settings and custom templates for the welcome message.
Mark, do you think we should make the actual announce-only style reflect these settings so folks don't have to manually set these after they create a announce-only list?
I am not sure the reason behind these settings lacking for the current announce-only style. Are there situations where announce-only list would have different list setting?
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On 2/1/20 9:53 AM, Abhilash Raj wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
In short, you need to set this up manually using things like moderation settings and custom templates for the welcome message.
Mark, do you think we should make the actual announce-only style reflect these settings so folks don't have to manually set these after they create a announce-only list?
I am not sure the reason behind these settings lacking for the current announce-only style. Are there situations where announce-only list would have different list setting?
I think it was probably done as it is just as a start. I do think it would be good to set more things appropriately for the announce-only style, ultimately we may need to add templates for post rejection notices and things like that.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro writes:
On 2/1/20 9:53 AM, Abhilash Raj wrote:
Mark, do you think we should make the actual announce-only style reflect these settings so folks don't have to manually set these after they create a announce-only list?
I am not sure the reason behind these settings lacking for the current announce-only style. Are there situations where announce-only list would have different list setting?
I think it was probably done as it is just as a start. I do think it would be good to set more things appropriately for the announce-only style, ultimately we may need to add templates for post rejection notices and things like that.
If this involves a fair amount of coding maybe it could be a suggested GSoC task?
Steve
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