The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Gavin Younger <address@concealed>]

On 17 Mar 2015, at 03:12, Steve Shipway <address@concealed> wrote:

>> So if you know how to allow a single address (e.g.; codesite-
>> address@concealed
>> ) to send e-mails to a Sympa mailing list without receiving a copy of the
> sent
>> message, it would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I can think of four ways to achieve this.
> 
> 1.  Add the email address as a list subscriber, but with the 'nomail'
> distribution method. This way - provided list subscribers can post! - it can
> send to the list, but will not receive anything.
> 2. Add the email address as a list editor, but with 'conceal' and 'nomail'.
> This will let it post, but not receive any notifications.  This is not very
> secure, though.
> 3. Use a customised Send scenario, that does an explicit test for the sender
> email address and allows posting.
> 4. Use  Whitelists !
> 
> 
We used to use a combination of 1) and 2) but are now using Steve's whitelist 
patches to achieve this, it's working well so far. 

I'd like to see this incorporated into the main code at some point - very 
useful!

Regards,
Gavin Younger,
Systems Administrator (listmaster),
IT Service,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK