| Mailing List Gateway enhancement [message #8133] |
Mon, 13 January 2003 06:53  |
jht001
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Registered: October 2002
Location: Honolulu, HI
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I just finished setting up a gateway between FUDforum (v2.3.6) and a Mailman (v2.1) mailing list -- both on a Redhat 8.0 system.
The FUDForum documentation mentions that when forum posts are sent from FUDforum to the mailing list, they will likely bounce if the user making the post is not already a member of the mailing list.
I found some simple ways to fix this.
At least in the case of Mailman, if the incoming message has an RFC-822 header line of the form:
Approved: xxxxxxxxxx
where xxxxxxxxxx is the Mailman list password
The message will be accepted and sent to the list even if the person sending it is not a member of the list.
FUDforum doesn't currently provide an easy way to add an RFC-822 header to an outgoing message to a mailing list.
It would be nice when setting up a FUDforum mailing list gateway, if there was a text box that let you add one or more RFC-822 headers to be included in outgoing messages to that mailing list. The headers would be different for each mailing list, so it would need to be specific to each mailing list setup.
The other way to fix the problem is to modify the mailing list manager. For Mailman, I modified the source code to automatically approve messages if the X-mailer header included the string 'FUDforum'.
Jim
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