I've been meaning to mention this for awhile - its nothing major just something that's annoyed a number of us. Whenever an email is held, the list owner gets an email of the following format,
## Begin From: LISTNAME-owner@HOST.org Sender: mailman-bounces@HOST.org Subject: LISTNAME post from someone@somewhere.net requires approval
<info-stage> [Mailman Header with some info] List: LISTNAME@HOST.org From: someone@somewhere.net
<orig content> [Actual Email]
<instructions> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: confirm c67f31fde320f99a020ac08deca7b4185f27d24f Sender: LISTNAME-request@HOST.org From: LISTNAME-request@HOST.org
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. ## End
(A number of things above were excluded - check a held email notification for details)
A few notes --
The title and the email's contents are redundant with regard to letting the admin know which list and from whom the offending email is from.
Replying to the email ought to go to 'LISTNAME-request' and not 'LISTNAME-owner' again (the Reply-To header needs to be added).
The instructions on what to do with the email are more important than the email itself (to an admin), so I'd put it right below the info-stage of the notification email.
The instructions are rather confusing at first. Why would I 'confirm' an email message. It would be best if the email reply to 'LISTNAME-request' was of the form,
discard c67f31fde320f99a020ac08deca7b4185f27d24f reject c67f31fde320f99a020ac08deca7b4185f27d24f accept c67f31fde320f99a020ac08deca7b4185f27d24f (PASSWORD)
Not sure the password is needed - as the email address and the title value is sufficient, but whatever. The options listed above are the same ones seen on the webpage, so there is a one-to-one correspondence. I would even suggest adding that text to the email itself so that it can be cut-n-pasted into the new title.
Regards,
- Nadim
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