In a message of Thu, 01 Oct 2015 01:35:02 -0400, Steve Matzura writes:
>Well now I've seen everything. Why would Mailman send a return message
>to a subscriber to a mailing list that says their message couldn't be
>posted to the mailing list because "message may contain
>administrivia".
If your subject contains just one of these words, or this word
followed by a reasonable number of arguments, or if the content
of your message is again, one line, one of these words, or one of them
followed by a reasonable number of arguments, then your message can
be held.
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),
}
You can turn this off. Under general options, look for
(Administrivia filter) Check postings and intercept ones that seem to be
administrative requests?
I mostly turn mine off, as I haven't found it very useful. It would be
a good idea if your list was plagued by people trying to be sophisticated
in using the list commands and mailing the list rather than list-request.
This sort of thing happens to me about once every 5 years, over the
management of a large number of lists. It is more common for me to get
mail on lists Subject: I don't understand this error
Help <some wretched error number generated by microsoft>
I am curious -- does mailman 3 have this feature?
Laura
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