On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 09:11:14AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
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!)
No, this is not the case. Approved headers, while perhaps slightly inelegant, are more secure (FSVO "secure") than simply allowing a set of posters to post. Anyone can trivially fake a "From" header in an email address, whereas with an approved header you need to know the password.
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