Nested lists possible
There are two kind of members of an organization, general and inner ones. There is a list for the inner members and I don't want to duplicate their names in the general list.
I have already put the inner list as member of the general list and it works, however, the subject includes both prefixes and there are also both footers. So, the result is not really acceptable.
Are there any other possibilities?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Flo
On 7/9/26 11:28, Flo via Mailman-users wrote:
I have already put the inner list as member of the general list and it works, however, the subject includes both prefixes and there are also both footers. So, the result is not really acceptable.
Are there any other possibilities?
Mailman 2.1 had a regular_include_lists feature that would allow specifying another list whose members would receive posts to this list. I think that is what you are looking for. Unfortunately, that feature has not yet been implemented in Mailman 3.
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Mark Sapiro writes:
Mailman 2.1 had a regular_include_lists feature that would allow specifying another list whose members would receive posts to this list. I think that is what you are looking for. Unfortunately, that feature has not yet been implemented in Mailman 3.
Implementing regular_include_lists is the "right" way to do this, but it may take a while.
If your "inner" users are somewhat sophisticated, you could have *two* inner-lists, one with address "inner-list-members@your.domain" which the inner-list members sign up for but is not advertised, and has no decorations such as subject tag and footer. The other would be named "inner-list@your.domain", would have "inner-list-members" as its only subscriber, and it would be the advertised posting address and provide the decorations. Complete the hack by subscribing "inner-list-members" to "outer-list".
You can make "inner-list" a "by-list-owner-only" subscription policy, and have a description directing users to sign up "inner-list-members" instead.
Not optimal, but it's a one-time annoyance for each subscriber and the list traffic looks the way I think you want it (decorations for posts to the outer list are outer-list for everybody including inner-list members, decorations for posts to the inner list are inner-list).
You could also do this with all posts going to inner-list getting inner-list decorations, by requiring that outer-list subscribers subscribe to outer-list-members, which provides the outer-list decorations (I think this can be done but it will be confusing to list admins). Then "outer-list" would have no decorations and the sublists as the only subscribers. "inner-list" would have its own decorations.
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