[H-GEN] Feasibility of setting up a 'Members only' e-mail address on a linux box?

[David Seikel]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:55:33 +1000 (EST) moondrake at aanet.com.au wrote:

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> Hi All,
> 
> In my day job I work for a statewide membership-based non-profit.  We
> host our own mailserver on a debian stable box (sendmail,
> spamassassin, clamav, mimedefang, courier-imap combo).
> 
> At the moment my working life feels like I'm facing a constant
> tsunami of information arriving via e-mail and I'm wondering if there
> is some neat way of prioritising those e-mails sent by my
> organisations paid up members.
> 
> The first thought I had was to:
> 1) set up an email address - memberaccess at myorg.com.au
> 2) spit out and regularly update (from our member DB) a plain text
> list of the e-mail addresses of all current members
> 3) allow only e-mails to memberaccess at myorg.com.au where the from
> address is in the list of members emails.  Or, possibly set up some
> script that regularly scans through the memberaccess email inbox and
> deletes those where the from address is not in the list.
> 
> The second thought I had was to setup a mailman list to do this - but
> AFAIK it's not possible to set the list up to post all entries to a
> single address - though perhaps there's a way of hacking this?
> 
> Has anyone on the list done something similar to this?  Is the idea
> above feasible?  Are there better ways of doing this?

Not too sure exactly what you are trying to achieve, but it sounds like
you want to sort some email into a different place from the other
email.  I use my email clients filtering system to sort my incoming
email into dozens of different folders.  Then I can give priority to
certain folders, and even ignore certain others if I'm getting swamped.
Claws-mail (used to be called Sylpheed Claws) is good at this, with
very flexible filtering, but other email clients can probably do the
same.
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