Utilities: Members: Bans

This setting tells ListManager to deny subscription requests and postings from the members set here (those that are to be banned). If a banned person tries to join your mailing list, they will be rejected.

Note that this feature does NOT prevent administrators from adding banned members in Utilities: Members, nor does it prevent them from receiving mail if they are already members. The member will only be banned if the user tries to join again, or when doing a member import.

Members can be banned by domain or email address (not on their name alone). For information on how to create a new banned member, see Utilities: Members: Bans: New Ban. This feature works by matching the text patterns that you specify matched against the entire From: line that includes both the person's email address and their name.

There are three types of bans:

     1. Always accept

     2. Conditionally accept

     3. Reject

A record found in "Always accept" is accepted with no further processing. Records found in "Conditionally accept" will be accepted if no explicit reject information is found. Records found in "Reject" are rejected automatically, if matched.

Example: If I create rules to always accept the domain name "example.com", and conditionally accept "yourdomain.com", but reject "yourname@yourdomain.com", anything at "example.com" will always be allowed, "abc@yourdomain.com" will be conditionally accepted- that is, it will be accepted unless explicitly rejected (but since it is not banned it will be accepted), and "yourname@yourdomain.com" would be conditionally accepted, but since it is on the Reject list, it will be rejected. In tabular form:

Note that if there are accept rules, either conditional or always accept, then failure to match one of those rules means the member is rejected. The member must match both rules in order to be accepted. If an accepted person tries to submit a posting or subscribe to your list, they will always be allowed. Everyone else will be rejected.

There is no wildcarding of information in the user name or domain fields. Any email address that is checked is searched for the entire domain provided, and every subdomain. So if "yourdomain.com" is banned, then fred@example.yourdomain.com will also be caught and banned. This is only true of the domain field (right of the @ symbol), and does not apply to the username field (left of the @ symbol).

Member Ban Main Page

The main page displays 10 member bans. To view more items on the list, click show more at the bottom of the page. These can be sorted by using the up and down arrows next to the column header name. The list can be sorted by Username, Domain, Applies to (which list, site, or server it applies to), or Type (Always Accept, Conditionally accept, or Reject). The default sort is by Domain, showing the first 10 alphabetically, by Domain.

To edit a member ban, click on the member's name. This opens the Utilities: Members: Bans: New Ban page, where you can make any changes. A particular ban can also be copied or deleted. Click "copy" or "delete" next to the ban member name. ListManager will ask you if you are sure, and then will create the copy or delete the ban. Generally, a member ban will be copied in order to include it on another list or site.

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