Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:02:04 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing list software recommendation Message-ID: <20160208220204.affe9682.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20160208070514.GA13769@ayvali.org> References: <56B804D0.3010706@gmail.com> <56B81FC9.9010101@parts-unknown.org> <20160208070514.GA13769@ayvali.org>
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On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 23:05:14 -0800, N.J. Thomas wrote: > * David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> [2016-02-07 20:55:37-0800]: > > > I am looking for a mailing list software application in the ports > > > collection that DOESN'T show any list members email address in the > > > posts. > > > > I believe mailman can do this. It is an option in the mailing list > > configuration but it is not on by default. > > Correct. Install GNU Mailman from ports, and set the anonymous_list > option when setting up your list. But see also the caveat from the docs: > > anonymous_list > > This variable allows you to turn on some simple anonymizing > features of Mailman. When you set this option to Yes, Mailman > will remove or replace the From:, Sender:, and Reply-To: > fields of any message posted to the list. This is correct for the headers, but I think in order to anonymize the list _posts_ you need to do some more postprocessing. For example, when a user quotes another user, the introduction line, followed by the quote, might contain the quoted user's address: On 07-Feb-2016, Bob <bob@example.com> wrote: > [ Bob's text here ] If you need _that_ feature too, you'd have to postprocess the messages or strictly enforce the omission of e-mail addresses in the posts. I'm not sure if GNU Mailman has a built-in function or a pluggable module for that purpose... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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