On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 08:46:42AM -0600, James Thompson wrote:
First, Mailman doesn't seem to allow a user to type Approved: Password
as the first line of the mail to the list to bypass the approval by the administrator. The user doesn't want to maintain the list of posters that bypass approval. So this is holding up the migration of 3 lists.
Is this not supported?
No. Mailman doesn't use an Approved header, so adding one has no effect. (Incidentally, what you describe seems like a very ugly, labor-intensive, insecure, and just plain *wrong* way of allowing multiple people to post to a moderated list. I can't see how allowing list members to bypass moderation could be a Good Thing. Shame on majordomo!)
To achieve a similar effect in Mailman, go to the "Privacy Options" page and add the implictly-approved users' addresses to the "Addresses of members accepted for posting to this list without implicit approval requirement" box. (Yes, I know you said the user doesn't want to maintain that list. It should be a more-or-less one-shot deal, though - if the list of approved posters is changing constantly, I would suspect that it would be more reasonable to either unmoderate the list or let the messages be held and apporved manually.)
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