As Majordomo 1.9.X is set up in a default state, the
lists are open to the world.
there are several things that you can do that will tighten
them up:
1) For each list, make sure that
a) advertising is off for the list
b) who, which commands are restricted to only list members
c) subscription requires at least a confirmation
and preferably is closed
d) restrict post is set to lists of people who you want
to post.
2) That you change the default connection between the list alias
and the outgoing list alias.
IE, if I have a list called foo, the default list to send to is
foo-outgoing
You want this to be an unknown list name. So you might set
the list foo to have the outgoing name of foo-outgoing-xy33392
This keeps people from skipping the majordomo program.
Majordomo is good for smallish (less than thousands) of users to add and
delete themselves from the list via email control.
There is a web interface, but it is a seperate package.
Programs like Mailman are more integrated with the web, and less functional
from email.
If your goal is to mail to your customers, but you don't
want them to post back. Majordomo is not likely what you want.
If you just have your customer list and you want to mail them
but not have them have discussions, but you don't want to
beat up your mail server, you might look at the PERL class
for BulkMail. I have used this to write a quick hack to mail
to all my thousands of customers the monthly newsletter
that we send out.
"Sose Canadian" <sose@mohawk.ca> writes:
% What I really want majordomo for is to assure that no one can use our
% email aliases for spam. What I mean is I would like to make sure that if
% I send a broadcast email to my customers that only I can use my customers
% broadcast email address. I want to ensure that only I can use this
% broadcast email address. Is Majordomo the right application?
% Regards,
% Sose Canadian
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