[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >What signifys a message as being labeled administrivia? I dont get to >many needing approval because of this, but I have yet to figure out >why they are being flagged as such.
First, you can control whether or not messages are held for this reason with the 'administrivia' setting on the list's general options page. (Administrivia filter) Check postings and intercept ones that seem to be administrative requests? If administrivia is set to Yes, then a post will be held if it looks like something that should have been sent to the -request address. The test is not too sophisticated. It misses many 'get me off this list' type posts. A message is judged administrivia if the body up to a '-- ' signature line consists of a single word from the list of valid email commands or if the subject or one of the first few lines of the body begins with a valid email command word followed by the correct number of arguments (additional white space separated words). The following is a list of command words and the minimum and maximum number of arguments for each. ADMINDATA = { # admin keyword: (minimum #args, maximum #args) 'confirm': (1, 1), 'help': (0, 0), 'info': (0, 0), 'lists': (0, 0), 'options': (0, 0), 'password': (2, 2), 'remove': (0, 0), 'set': (3, 3), 'subscribe': (0, 3), 'unsubscribe': (0, 1), 'who': (0, 0), } So if the subject of a message or one of the first few body lines has unsubscribe as it's first word followed by 0 or 1 more words as in unsubscribe or unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Unsubscribe me! it is administrivia, but not if it has unsubscribe me from this list. In my experience, this catches messages from people who know what they are doing and inadvertently send to the list instead of list-request, but it catches few if any of the messages from clueless people who are trying to get off the list or whatever by mailing to the list. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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