The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

We've added this section to the reference manual ; it might be of interrest for some of you :

2.5 Roles and privileges

You can assign roles to users (via their email addresses) at different level in Sympa ; privileges are associated (or can be associated) to these roles. We list these roles below (from the most powerful to the less), along with the relevent privileges.

2.5.1 (Super) listmasters

These are the persons administrating the service, defined in the sympa.conf file. They inherit the listmaster role in virtual robots and are the default set of listmasters for virtual robots.

2.5.2 (Robot) listmasters

You can define a different set of listmasters at a virtual robot level (in the robot.conf file). They are responsible for moderating mailing lists creation (if list creation is configured this way), editing default templates, providing help to list owners and moderators. Users defined as listmasters get a privileged access to Sympa web interface. Listmasters also inherit the privileges of list owners (for any list defined in the virtual robot), but not the moderator privileges.

2.5.3 Privileged list owners

The first defined privileged owner is the person who requested the list creation. Later it can be changed or extended. They inherit (basic) owners privileges and are also responsible for managing the list owners and editors themselves (via the web interface). With Sympa'd default behavior, privileged owners can edit more list parameters than (basic) owners can do ; but this can be customized via the edit-list.conf file.

2.5.4 (Basic) list owners

They are responsible for managing the members of the list, editing the list configuration and templates. Owners (and privileged owners) are defined in the list config file.

2.5.5 Moderators (also called Editors)

Moderators are responsible for the messages distributed in the mailing list (as opposed to owners who look after list members). Moderators are active if the list has been setup as a moderated mailing list. If no moderator is defined for the list, then list owners will inherit the moderator role.

2.5.6 Subscribers (or list members)

Subscribers are the persons who are member of a mailing list ; they either subscribed, or got added directly by the listmaster or via a datasource (LDAP, SQL, another list,...). These subscribers receive messages posted in the list (unless they have set the nomail option) and have special privileges to post in the mailing list (unless it is a newsletter). Most privileges a subscriber may have is not hardcoded in Sympa but expressed via the so-called authorization scenarios

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