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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Hi Stephen,

As a University we also have to cope with yearly renewal of students list members. For this we rely on members inclusion from third party sources (LDAP mostly). This removes the burden of managing list members manually.

But if you still need to rely on manual processes, you can prevent list owners notification by customizing the "add" and "del" list parameters. For example the "del" parameter could be changed from "list owners, authentication not needed (notification)"  to "by owner without authentication".

You can even customize the default "del.owner_notify" scenario that looks like this :

title.gettext list owners, authentication not needed (notification)

is_owner([listname],[sender])  smtp,dkim,smime,md5 -> do_it,notify
is_listmaster([sender])        smtp,dkim           -> request_auth
is_listmaster([sender])        md5,smime      -> do_it,notify
true()                         smtp,dkim,md5,smime -> reject(reason='del_owner')   

Le 21/06/2022 à 21:21, Stephen Jarjoura a écrit :

Hello;

        We have
          some lists that are actively managed by their admins, as in
          adding and removing hundreds of subscribers each semester.
          Even if the "Quiet" flag is checked, this only suppresses the
          notifications to the subscribers themselves, but not the
          admin's. Further, each individual subscriber deleted generates
          its own notification message. The result is many hundreds of
          "FYI: del list <listname> from <address@concealed>"
          notifications sent to each admin each semester.
        
        
        Just to
          clarify, I am not referring to the notifications sent to
          subscribers, I am referring to the notifications sent to list
          administrator's.
        
        
        Is there
          some way to suppress these notifications? Either application
          wide or list specific.

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Stephen A. Jarjoura

Collaborative Systems Group

Information Technology Services

Boston College

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Olivier Salaün
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