Ok, but in this mode who know MAINTAINER ADDRESS insert it in returna address and post to LIST without problem.

Is this true?

At 15.38 22/01/01 -0500, you wrote:

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I want block all sender to my list and post message only from my server or my address.

It sounds like you need a 'newsletter' style mailing list. This is done by:

1. delinking the accept and dist files --how to is in various FAQs
2. removing all addreses from accept file, except the one that you want to

send 'From'. -see FAQs 3. editing the rc.custom file for the particular list, uncomment foreign_submit. [this restricts posts to only those coming from addresses in the accept file.] --how to in various FAQs 4. There will always be mail to the maintainer, (unless there isn't one) but these attempted postings will not go to the list itself.

--Joyce

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At 5:58 PM -0500 1/22/01, Pablo Liuzzi is rumored to have typed:

Ok, but in this mode who know MAINTAINER ADDRESS insert it in returna address and post to LIST without problem.

Is this true?

Yep, unless you pre-filter any mail to the list that deosn't come from your specific IP (assuming it's static) or use some other system of verification.

You need to remember that SmartList is open-source. It is trivial to add a password-protection scheme if you want, or to change the moderation routines, or reject mail that doesn't come from your specific IP, or to do anything else you want to do with it.

All you need to do is invest a little time learning how SmartList does things "normally" (the easiest way to do that is to spend some time reading the code, and actually experimenting with things in a testing list) and then you can change it to do whatever you want it to do. I wanted to make the moderation routines require a password in the subject instead of an approval header, to make it easier for "newbie" list moderators to approve messages without having to teach them how to add a header field to their mail...so I did. Other people I know have made it practically impossible for anyone to post a message without knowing a sequence of passwords. Other people changed the header field name ever-so-slightly just to keep people familiar with SmartList from breaking their lists. Still others leave the moderation routines exactly the way they are.

My guess is that since you're using Eudora, you don't want to approve by adding header fields...so come up with another way. _Any_ other way...whatever works best for _you._

But since the vast majority of people don't need the high-level of security you seem to need, SmartList doesn't come out-of-the-box with multi-level passwords or the like. What it _does_ come with is the complete source, and a license that practically _begs_ you to make it your own.

Charlie