RE: read-only list

>> Alejandro Mery <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> i want to have a read-only mailling list (svn reports) [...]
>>>>> 
>>>> man ezmlm-make. Look for moderation (-m and -o).
>>>> 
>>> everything i saw there pass by an "approval" process, which i would
>>> prefer to avoid. that's why my question. i need restricted but not
>>> moderated. 
>> 
>> "Not moderated" means "not secure, any one can post to the list by
>> simply pretending to be on the list of "approved" senders.
>> 
>> ezmlm-idx does not support such an insecure configuration by default;
>> you cannot create such a list with ezmlm-make.  You can, however,
>> turn an ezmlm-idx list into such an insecure list by hacking the
>> resulting .qmail files yourself.  Feel free to do so; the man pages
>> for qmail-command and ezmlm-issubn tell you what you need to do so.
>> 
>> Charles

Charles (as always) is quite right.  It is an insecure setup.  For my
purposes, however, it is what I want and what I need and I am willing to
take the risk.  In practice, my lists have never been abused.  It could
(probably will) happen, but it hasn't yet.

Here is my setup..

/var/listserv/mylist/editor contains:

|/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-reject '/var/listserv/mylist'
|/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-gate '/var/listserv/mylist' bypass_mod mod
|/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-clean -R '/var/listserv/mylist' || exit 0
|/usr/local/bin/ezmlm/ezmlm-warn '/var/listserv/mylist' || exit 0

/var/listserv/mylist/bypass_mod/subscribers is a normal subscriber
directory.

Flags: -abCDEFGHIJKLmNOpqrStUVWXYZ

I am using ezmlm-idx-5.1.0

People on the bypass_mod list and people on the mod list can post without
moderation.  If anyone else tries to post, it is sent to the folks on the
mod list.

Hope that helps.

-- David I. Bell