Re: [cobalt-users] Majordomo

["Rick Ewart" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tim King wrote:
> Either make it so that only the owner can post, or if this isn't an
option,
> set it up so that all the posts are moderated. You can find out how to do
> all of that by looking here http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/
>
> Look in the FAQ, the mailing lists and I think you may have to download
the
> app to get the documentation. It's probably on the Cobalt but I don't know
> where - never bothered to look for it.

> Andy Jacobs wrote:
> > Possible scenario:
> >
> > Distribution list set up for customer and a competitor subscribes.  The
> > customer sends out special offers and the competitor knocks off 10% and
> then
> > sends and e-mail back to the list.
> >
> > Is there any way to stop this, maybe by making it so that only the owner
> can
> > post or something.  I tried BCCing but that doesn't help as you can see
> the
> > address for the list in the headers.

In my case, I SSH'd to the majorodomo directory on my RaQ4,
/usr/local/majordomo and then found the list associated with the domain I am
doing this on. I then set up a second textfile called listadmin. In that
file I only list the email addresses to allow posting from.

Then I edit the maillist.config file (maillist varies with your list name).
Quite a ways down through the config you will see the restrict_post option.
I changed that to be restrict_post = listadmin. The next line down is sender
=. Make that sender = yourname and the mail will look like it comes from
yourname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx There are a lot of other options in the file that
you can tinker with. I added a subject prefix to make it easy to identify
mail sent through the list. Again, if they spoof the allowed sender's return
address, my preventions above will not work. But if you change to a
moderated list, it will allow the addition of a password.

HTH at least a bit...
Rick