Lyris User's Guide
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Allow Non-Member Posting
Table of Contents
· Introduction
· Email Commands
· Web Interface for Users
· Server Administrator
· Site Administrator
· List Administrator
· Other Topics
· · Security Considerations
· · Security Issues Relating to Members
· · · Access to the list archives
· · · Access to the list of members
· · · Access to Subscribe to the Mailing List
· · · Steps to restrict false impersonations
· · · Security Features for Posting Messages
· · · · List admin posting
· · · · Admin Moderation
· · · · Number moderating
· · · · Allow Non-Member Posting
· · · · Action Phrase Restrictions
· · · · Password based posting
· · · · Banning members
· · · · Disallow Email Posting
· · · · Secure HTTP web interface
· · · · Lyris List Manager extensions
· · · · Confirmed subscriptions
· · · · Duplicate messages
· · · · Cross-posting
· · · · Maximum posts per member
· · · · Maximum quoting allowed
· · · · Maximum Messages Per Day
· · · · Limit the Message Size
· · · · Reject Email Attachments
· · · · Moderator auto-approval
· · · · Command detection
· · · · Anonymous Postings
· · · Access to unsubscribe and change settings
· · · Visibility of the existence of the mailing list
· · · Web Interface Access
· · · Overview of Lyris List Manager Posting Security
· · · Security Considerations of the From: field
· · · Security Recommendations for Announcement lists
· · · How Lyris List Manager Determines the Identity of the Person Posting
· · Lyris List Manager Mail Merge
· · The Lyris List Manager command line
· · Modifying lyris.plc
· Add-On Packages
· Installing and Upgrading
· Appendix
· Frequently Asked Questions

Allow Non-Member Posting

Normally, people who are not members of your mailing list are barred by Lyris List Manager from posting to the mailing list. The reason for this is that unscrupulous people like to send junk mail out on mailing lists and allowing non-members to post makes this very easy for them.

However, you may have a need to allow non-members to post. For example, if you have a tech support discussion forum, you may want to allow your customers to post, but only want your own employees on the discussion.

So, the "members-only" posting feature can be disabled, to allow non-members to post.

If number moderating is enabled, the postings from the non-members are treated as new member postings and are moderated. In this way, you could have your members post without moderator approval, but require moderator approval from the non-member postings.

This feature is also convenient if your members post from several email addresses and do not want to tell Lyris List Manager what the different email addresses are.

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