> From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: LISTSERV site administrators' forum <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:27:11 -0700
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [LSTSRV-L] Non-subscriber poster to private list
>
> LISTSERV folks:
>
> So I have a list configured like this:
>
> *
> * Supervisors at SSRL
> *
> * Subscription= By_owner
> *
> * Ack= No
> *
> * Confidential= Yes
> *
> * Validate= Yes,Confirm
> *
> * Reply-to= Sender,Respect
> *
> * Review= Service,private
> *
> * Send= Service,Confirm
> *
> * Errors-To= Owner
> *
> * Notebook= No
> *
> * Subject-Tag = M$SUPESSSRL
> *
> * Default-options= IETFhdr,Repro,NoAck
> *
> * .HH ON
> *
> * Owner= REDACTED
> *
> * Owner= [log in to unmask] (Alan Winston)
> *
> * Owner= REDACTED
> *
>
> (And the service is defined as SLAC.STANFORD.EDU)
>
> A non-subscriber attempted to send something to the list.  According to the
> LSV_SSRL.LOG:
>
> 11 Mar 2009 09:15:29 Processing file 57594 from [log in to unmask]
> 11 Mar 2009 09:15:29 Requesting confirmation, cookie=3C052D52, ID=020CB3
> 11 Mar 2009 09:15:29 Sent information mail to REDACTED
>
>
> Things are complicated at the moment because my PMDF (mail server) logs show
> the incoming mail from the non-subscriber, and an outgoing mail delivered to
> the SMTP server for the non-subscriber, but the non-subscriber says she never
> got anything back and thought her message was sent out, which it was not.
>
> Q: None of the owners of the list were sent a confirmation request (per mail
> server logs).  What, then, does LISTSERV mean by saying it was requesting
> confirmation?  Is the "information mail" that comes next actually the
> confirmation message?  (I would have thought that it would be a message saying
> "your post to M$SUPESSSRL is awaiting confirmation.)
>
> What I want is for the the list to bounce or drop on the floor all messages
> from outside the SERVICE, but send confirmation requests to the first Owner
> if there are messages from within the service.  That's what I thought I had,
> but my confirmation request doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Your list is set up so anyone within your service area is sent a
confirmation request in response to message they send to the list. If the
confirmation request is approved, the message will be distributed to the
list's subscribers. I think you need to recode your list's header to so the
"Send" keyword looks like ...

* Send= Service, Editor, Confirm

This should do what you want, but certainly test it yourself.