Feature Requests item #673265, was opened at 2003-01-23 19:39 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by tpetazzoni You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=673265&group_id=103 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Samuel Tardieu (samtardieu) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Post confirmation + moderation Initial Comment: The following scheme (implemented by me for Sympa as a scenario some time ago) leads to a spam-free mailing-list with almost no work from the moderator. When a mail arrive and should be held for any reason (sender not in subscriber list, list not in to: or cc:, too many recipients), ask the alleged sender to confirm its post then hold it for moderation when the sender confirms its intention to post. This way, spam (whose confirmation request will almost never be answered) is not presented to the moderators, while mail sent by humans will. It would be great to have this feature in mailman. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Thomas Petazzoni (tpetazzoni) Date: 2007-01-06 08:40 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1145572 Originator: NO I also really would like to see this feature implemented in Mailman. I'm the mailing list moderator of several lists managed by Mailman, and I'm really bored by all the spam I have to delete from the administrative interface. Of course, I could configure the lists to drop e-mails from non-members, but as some of my lists target a public that doesn't really understand the way mailing lists work, I prefer to keep the solution of moderating valid e-mails by hand. Having a mechanism where a e-mail would be send to the sender asking for confirmation would be nice. Sympa has this feature for a long time, but I'd really prefer sticking with Mailman, I like it better. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: James Andrewartha (watha) Date: 2006-11-13 03:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=460267 http://viewmtn.angrygoats.net/revision/diff/dfedaca2816739f4f052d21247f6877f... has an implementation for this, although there's a few other features mixed into the diff as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Lucas Nussbaum (lnu) Date: 2006-11-11 11:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=527142 Also, this could be implemented in a greylist-like way: the sender would have to confirm his first post, and then, its mails would get auto-accepted for a few hours/days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Lucas Nussbaum (lnu) Date: 2006-11-11 11:34 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=527142 Hi, This feature would really be great to have in mailman. Additionnally, a web-based confirmation interface could be added, with an image-based confirmation, to prevent robots from auto-confirming their posts. Is it planned ? I'm a bit concerned by the fact that this feature request was posted more than 3 years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350103&aid=673265&group_id=103