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[Warren Howard <address@concealed>]

Hi!

On 10/20/2006 02:01 AM, Serge Aumont wrote:

Warren Howard a écrit :

Hi,

I'm using Sympa 5.2.1.  My "create_list" authorization scenario is
"intranet".  I'm facing a problem here where list owners are able to and
are adding list members before the list has been approved and
"installed" by the listmaster (me).

I would like to prevent list owners from adding members to their list
until the list has been approved by the listmaster.
  

Why is this a problem : nobody can send message to the list ?

I have some naming conventions here for lists that I insist people follow.  These are documented in several places including the "create list" page (I've set up customised "create_list_templates").  Never the less as soon as they create a list they start adding list members --- which also generates welcome messages, because invariable they wont use "quiet".  Then I come along as listmaster and "close" the list because it is not following the naming convention --- after the welcome messages have already gone out to the list subscribers.  This creates confusion among the subscribers because shortly they receive a second welcome message for a new list about the same thing but with a different name.  So to avoid all this I would like to prevent the addition of list members to a list until that list has been installed by the listmaster.

Can this be done?
  

Yes :  you can add a a rule to any add scenario (in order to do it create a scenario file named include.add.header.
Add the following rule in that file
equal([list->status],'pending')  smtp,md5,smime -> reject

nobody will be able to add subscriber until the list status value differ from 'pending'

Serge

Rule added, tested and working!  Plus I made changes to my local "create_list.tt2" template file so that the message after list creation submission explains that members cannot be added until after the listmaster has validated the list.

With thanks,


Warren.
  

More thanks!

Warren.