784160 - Google group memberships are not recognized by Mailman

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Infrastructure & Operations :: Infrastructure: Mail, task)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Eg: I regularly need to approve postings on dev-b2g and dev-gaia mailing lists because the subscribers are posting via Google Groups, and aren't recognized as being subscribed.d

Comment 1

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

The reason why new forums are set up as moderated is because of spam coming from google groups. Automatically approving posts from google groups would just negate that.
More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Discussion_Forums/Proposal

One thing you can do right now is add legitimate posters to the auto-approve list. When you get asked to approve a message, there should be an option to always accept messages from that poster.
If you don't see that option, you can add them via the admin panel, at https://lists.mozilla.org/admin/dev-b2g/?VARHELP=privacy/sender/accept_these_nonmembers

Comment 2

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

Dietrich, we are soliciting feedback [1] and updating the painpoints on our current setup, as there are several spots that we can't much improve without a more comprehensive approach. This bug being a perfect example.

I am drafting a blog post to bring in the wider community of voices, and am holding a MozCampEU session on how to address the overall issues. This doesn't help you in the short term much, but IT and :gerv in particular acknowledge and are working on the problem, for what it is worth.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Discussion_Forums/Request_For_Comment

Comment 3

[Michael Burns [:mburns]]

Automated control of something like accept_these_nonmembers for each list could be streamlined as we move our mailman2 instances into Puppet, but it is not a trivial addition.

I'll try and tackle this early next quarter, but don't have time in the immediate future for this.

Comment 4

[Ed Lim [:limed]]

At this moment in time we do not have the cycles to work on this