In case it's helpful to anyone, I put the first draft of a little script for mutt to simplify moderation tasks. Feedback welcome. Thought I'd post here in case it's useful to anyone.
http://veggiechinese.net/mutt_mailman_approve.txt It's a perl script; it requires File::Copy, File::Temp and Term::ReadLine, which should all be pretty standard, I think. I'm sure it could be done in other languages too... this is just how I ended up doing it. Basically, to use this for approving / rejecting messages from the Mailman list manager, setup macros for the pager / index like the following: macro index M ":set editor=~/bin/mutt_mailman_approve.pl<enter> \ <view-attachments><last-entry><search-reverse>message/rfc822<enter> \ <reply><send-message>:set editor=\"vim +'/^$/+2'\"<enter><exit>" (where ~/bin/mutt_mailman_approve.pl is the path to the script) - replacing "vim ...." with your normal editor. This macro doesn't work quite perfectly if you try and use it on a message that isn't a Mailman confirm message, if the message is a single-part one. Let me know if you come up with an improved version of this macro. You could also presumably use message-hooks so that just hitting "r" would run this. It would be pretty easy to allow it to take a password as the second argument; in my case, I am the site admin for all of the lists I moderate, but I guess things could get a little more complicated if you moderate a lot of lists with different passwords. w ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
