On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote:
> I have mailman set up such that I am aliased to the *-owner address and I > receive an e-mail for every message sent to my moderated list. The subject > of this e-mail is "Connectionists post from * requires approval." This > e-mail has two forwarded messages embedded in it, one from the poster, and > another that looks like this: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *-request > To: > Date: > Subject: confirm e2a38902a4d73808769e0bd9e848a069010c3181 > If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact, > Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is > spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header > with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting > to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line > of the body of the reply. > > > This almost allows me to moderate my list entirely from within Gmail. Gmail > Labs contains a "Canned responses" feature that allows me to easily insert > the Approved: password line into my reply. Unfortunately *-request isn't the > address that sends me this e-mail, so I must change the address in my reply. > The subject is also wrong so I must change that, rendering this solution > ineffective. Ideally Mailman would send me this e-mail from *-request > instead of *-owner, would continue to include the posters entire e-mail, and > would use the confirm <hash> subject line, including accepting Re: confirm > <hash> as a valid reply. > > I am not the sysadmin of the mail server, but if there is some simple way > to configure mailman to behave in this way it would be highly desirable for > me. My list has 5,000 subscribers and the mail server is extremely slow. > Moderating from the mailman interface is tortuous for me, but having to jump > through so many hoops in Gmail is just as bad. > > Many thanks :) > > /Brian > I just found an e-mail sent to Mailman-Developers that never received a reply. It is essentially identical to mine. How can I bring this feature to life? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-April/020088.html ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
