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["McLaren, Terry" <address@concealed>]

Greetings Robert - First you need to install a plugin to enable allow/safe lists, https://github.com/sshipway/sympa-6.2-plugins/tree/master/whitelist-1.2.  Afterward, the web UI will provide a ‘Sender Lists’ menu which contains allow, mod and block.

 

When you add an email address (one per line) via the web UI, Sympa will create a file in:  ~/list_data/robot.domain/list.name/search_filters/whitelist.txt.   With your migration, you can prepopulate this file with your legacy addresses.  

 

I believe the Sympa Dev Team plans to include this plugin in a future version of Sympa 6.2.   I edited Steve’s code and switched the references to whitelist to allowlist for our implementation of the plugin.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Terry McLaren

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From: address@concealed <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Galanty, Robert
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2022 6:08 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] Migrating Lists from Mailman to Sympa

 

Hello,

 

I’new in Sympa and have a question about migrating mailing lists from Mailman to Sympa.

 

In Mailman I have moderated lists with 

* the recipient addresse

* the allowed sender addresses and a 

* defined admin who is approving the mails for dispatching

 

If I add a list in Sympa which is moderated, I would put

* the recipient addresses as the listmembers/subscribers

* the defined admin who is approving the mail as the listmaster

 

But the question is where do I put the allowed sender addresses in? If I put them to the editor/moderators, they can approve their own mails, which I want to avoid.

 

Is there a solution in Sympa for that use case?

 

Thank in advance!

Robert Galanty