Re: release of GNU adns [and 1 more messages]

[Glenn Morris]

Ian Jackson wrote:

> My adns-discuss list is a mailman list set to member posting only (for
> spam control reasons).  But of course I want bug submitters to be able
> to submit bugs without getting debbugs's messages rejected.  So I had
> to persuade mailman to accept debbugs's messages.
>
> This was possible but I had to:
>
>  * In /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, set
>     SENDER_HEADERS = ('from', 'resent-from', None, 'reply-to', 'sender', 
> 'resent-sender')
>
>  * Subscribe address@hidden' to the list using the admin UI,
>    turning off invitation, notification, and immediately set that
>    subscription to `nomail' and `hide'.
>
> The latter is a bit of a ridiculous thing to do and if you're fairly
> quick it shouldn't result in any mail going to address@hidden

It took me a while to figure this out, but I guess you mean that you
want to automatically accept messages with a resent-sender of
help-debbugs, rather than having to manually approve them.