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[Steve Shipway <address@concealed>]

I think you could achieve this by making a custom send scenario that checks the message headers for the In-Reply-To header or similar.

 

For example, consider this send scenario:

 

title.gettext Allow posting by listmaster, owner or moderator; or replies from subscribers

is_listmaster ([sender])              smtp,dkim,smime,md5 -> do_it

is_owner ([listname],[sender])        smtp,dkim,smime,md5 -> do_it

is_editor ([listname],[sender])       smtp,dkim,smime,md5 -> do_it

! is_subscriber ([listname],[sender]) smtp,dkim,smime,md5 -> reject(reason=”Not subscriber”)

equal([header->In-Reply-To],””)       smtp,dkim,smime,md5 -> reject(reason=”Not a reply”)

true()                                smtp,dkim,smime,md5 -> do_it

 

Of course, you might like to put in a bit more logic, such as queueing posts for moderation if they are not SMIME signed rather than just posting, but this send scenario should do the trick.

 

Alternatively, if you want the subscribers’ replies to go to the moderator directly and not to the list, then just edit the list config to have reply to Sender rather than reply to list, and you don’t need to grant subscribers posting rights at all.

 

Steve

 

Steve Shipway

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From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of Giuseppe Giacomini
Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2014 10:50 a.m.
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] making a reply only list

 

Hello Sympa users,

I need to create a list where the moderators can post new messages and the subscribers should be able only to answer the message.

So subscribers cannot post new message to the list, only reply to message already posted by moderators.

 

Is there a way to do this?

Thank you

 

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Giuseppe Giacomini
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
ASIT - Area Servizi Informatici e Telecomunicazioni
Sistemi e Infrastrutture
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041 234 7118

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