Mail-to-weblog questions

[Lawrence Lee]

Hi Hugh,

Have you tried disabling the: "Only post messages from authorized senders?"
setting? Though it might be safer to just leave it on and paste in the
authorized addresses.

Lawrence 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: frontier-users-admin at userland.com 
> [mailto:frontier-users-admin at userland.com] On Behalf Of Hugh Nicoll
> Sent: October 27, 2003 3:44 PM
> To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Subject: Mail-to-weblog questions
> 
> Greetings all,
> 
> I have just started to play with the mail-to-weblog feature, 
> which I'm sure I'm going to love once I get it working properly.
> 
> I have set up a couple of Manila sites for members of 
> academic mailing lists that I administer on a LetterRip Pro 
> server. I want to use the feature to create continuously 
> updating, automatic, searchable archives of mailing list posts.
> 
> I have added all subscribers to the sites as contributing 
> editors and made the sites private.
> 
> I have subscribed to the mailing lists using my secondary 
> university email address, and set the verification to use the 
> secret subject setting, using the subject line prefixes for 
> the respective lists as secret subjects.
> 
> At this point, without pointing Manila to the special pop 
> account email address in the authorized senders section of 
> the Mail-to-Weblog preferences, the mailing list posts are 
> not, apparently, being uploaded. But if the only authorized 
> sender is me, at my secondary address, then presumably other 
> list members' posts would be ignored.
> 
> Anyone experienced similar issues? Perhaps I'll simply need 
> to copy and paste the email addresses of all list members in 
> the authorized senders text box....
> 
> Suggestions welcome, and thanks in advance,
> 
> Hugh
> 
> Miyazaki Municipal University
> <http://www.miyazaki-mu.ac.jp/~hnicoll>
> 
>