On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 15:17:52 -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote: >John Fitzsimons wrote:
< snip > >As Adam said, go to the list's web admin interface Privacy options... >-> Sender filters and set default_member_moderation to No so future >new members won't be moderated by default. Done. >Then go to Membership Management -> Membership List, scroll down to >Additional Member Tasks and under "Set everyone's moderation bit, >including those members not currently visible" select Off and press Set >These changes have nothing to do with subscribe_policy for which you >apparently do want require approval. Yes, thank you for making things clearer. >It appears though that the reason that your list's posts are held is >"Posting to a moderated newsgroup". This is because on the admin >Mail<->News gateways page, you have gateway_to_news = Yes and >news_moderation set to Moderated. Is this what you mean by "moderated" >below? Actually I thought that "moderated" meant that one had to be an "approved" subscriber. >>I am beginning to think that my setting the list to "moderated" means >>that even subscribers are moderated. That isn't what I wanted. >If this is the setting on the Mail<->News gateways page, those all have >to do with gatewaying to/from a usenet group via NNTP. I suspect you >are not really doing that in which case both gateway_to_news and >gateway_to_mail should be set to No. Well, actually I am porting to/from a news server. Gmane. < snip > I had set "The moderation policy of the newsgroup" to "moderated". Thank you. This may be where my problem is. If I now set that to "none" then do you, or anyone else here, know whether posts will go to the newsgroup by non Mailman members ? Thanks again everyone. You have all been a big help to make things clearer for me. Regards, John. ------------------------------------------------------ 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