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Mailing LIst integration [message #26189]

Fri, 08 July 2005 19:45

ligesh

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I am running fudforum in conjunction with mailman. I have a small problem at this time. Fudforum sends mail to the list on behalf of the user who has made the post, and normally this user will not be a member of the mailing list, which would mean that i have to configure mailman to accept mails for non-subscribers, which in turn is a very dangerous thing.

Now i don't want to add the fudforum users directly to the mailing list since, these users will not want to be part of a list. The best way to proceed to configure the mailing list to accept non-subscribers only if the mail originates from 'localhost'.

That is: we need a 'host' based acl for Mailman. But i don't think mailman supports this. So has anyone come across this problem in the past, and knows how to configure mailman in this manner or does anyone have a better idea?

In general, what is a secure but effective way to combine mailing list and fudforum?

Thanks a lot in advance.

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Re: Mailing LIst integration [message #26190 is a reply to message #26189]

Fri, 08 July 2005 19:46

Ilia

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You could modify the mailing list syncronization code to send for a subscribed address so this is a non-issue.

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Re: Mailing LIst integration [message #26191 is a reply to message #26190]

Fri, 08 July 2005 19:50

ligesh

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YOu mean i have to dirty my hands with code? Smile

. I don't mind modifying code, but once i do that, how do i keep my version in sync with your releases. If i modify it once, every upgrade, i have to make sure that i patch my code into it.. right?

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Re: Mailing LIst integration [message #26192 is a reply to message #26191]

Fri, 08 July 2005 19:58

ligesh

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Btw, wouldn't it be a great idea if mailman had a host based accept system, so that we can configure it to accept mails from localhost no matter what?

Is there anything wrong with the above? Maybe i should modify mailman to do this?

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Re: Mailing LIst integration [message #26193 is a reply to message #26191]

Fri, 08 July 2005 20:10

Ilia

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ligesh wrote on Fri, 08 July 2005 15:50

YOu mean i have to dirty my hands with code? Smile

. I don't mind modifying code, but once i do that, how do i keep my version in sync with your releases. If i modify it once, every upgrade, i have to make sure that i patch my code into it.. right?

Well the change would be a 1 line hack (literaly), so you can generate a "diff" and then apply the patch after every upgrade that changes that code. Certainly not a great deal of effort.

As far as mailman you can certainly modify it with a host based system, another solution would be to prefix every sync e-mail with some "secret" identifying header. If this header is present make mailman import the message even if the author is not on the list of subscribers.

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