Rich wrote:
> There just *has* to be a better way to do this ... :-)
Yes, use a mailing list manager. It isn't reasonable to expect any
MTA to be a full-function mailing list manager.
> Seeing as subscriber-only mailing lists are becoming more and more
> common as spamming becomes more prevalent, perhaps it would be a
> good idea to build into Exim a little more direct support for this
> kind of operation, and other validations.
Actually, if your list gets larger you are going to want to
automatically handle subscribes, unsubscribes, and automatically do
confirms on subscriptions (subscription forgeries are becomming
common, there is even software out there that will forge subscribe
requests to thousands of mailing lists for you). And some spammers
are now mass subscribing to lists, spamming them, and then
unsubscribing.
If you like to tinker with software and make it do exactly what you
want, I recommend SmartList. But all mailing list managment programs
I know of have a feature to limit posting to subscribers only (so any
will do). Most also allow additional lists of addresses approved for
posting. Also with SmartList, it is trivial to do somthing like:
permit posting only by subscribers who have been members for at least
X days/weeks/months/whatever (which trips up the spammers who
subscribe,spam, and unsubscribe).
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Michelle Dick artemis@??? East Palo Alto, CA
