E-mail-based moderation
I have mailman set up such that I am aliased to the *-owner address and I receive an e-mail for every message sent to my moderated list. The subject of this e-mail is "Connectionists post from * requires approval." This e-mail has two forwarded messages embedded in it, one from the poster, and another that looks like this:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *-request To: Date: Subject: confirm e2a38902a4d73808769e0bd9e848a069010c3181 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.
This almost allows me to moderate my list entirely from within Gmail. Gmail Labs contains a "Canned responses" feature that allows me to easily insert the Approved: password line into my reply. Unfortunately *-request isn't the address that sends me this e-mail, so I must change the address in my reply. The subject is also wrong so I must change that, rendering this solution ineffective. Ideally Mailman would send me this e-mail from *-request instead of *-owner, would continue to include the posters entire e-mail, and would use the confirm <hash> subject line, including accepting Re: confirm <hash> as a valid reply.
I am not the sysadmin of the mail server, but if there is some simple way to configure mailman to behave in this way it would be highly desirable for me. My list has 5,000 subscribers and the mail server is extremely slow. Moderating from the mailman interface is tortuous for me, but having to jump through so many hoops in Gmail is just as bad.
Many thanks :)
/Brian
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu> wrote:
I have mailman set up such that I am aliased to the *-owner address and I receive an e-mail for every message sent to my moderated list. The subject of this e-mail is "Connectionists post from * requires approval." This e-mail has two forwarded messages embedded in it, one from the poster, and another that looks like this:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *-request To: Date: Subject: confirm e2a38902a4d73808769e0bd9e848a069010c3181 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.
This almost allows me to moderate my list entirely from within Gmail. Gmail Labs contains a "Canned responses" feature that allows me to easily insert the Approved: password line into my reply. Unfortunately *-request isn't the address that sends me this e-mail, so I must change the address in my reply. The subject is also wrong so I must change that, rendering this solution ineffective. Ideally Mailman would send me this e-mail from *-request instead of *-owner, would continue to include the posters entire e-mail, and would use the confirm <hash> subject line, including accepting Re: confirm <hash> as a valid reply.
I am not the sysadmin of the mail server, but if there is some simple way to configure mailman to behave in this way it would be highly desirable for me. My list has 5,000 subscribers and the mail server is extremely slow. Moderating from the mailman interface is tortuous for me, but having to jump through so many hoops in Gmail is just as bad.
Many thanks :)
/Brian
I just found an e-mail sent to Mailman-Developers that never received a reply. It is essentially identical to mine. How can I bring this feature to life?
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2008-April/020088.html
Brian J Mingus writes:
I just found an e-mail sent to Mailman-Developers that never received a reply. It is essentially identical to mine. How can I bring this feature to life?
A fully functional MUA allows you to pull out the forwarded message and respond to it. Mutt, Gnus, VM, MH-E (and MH itself), Mew, and Wanderlust all have this capability; I'm sure there are other MUAs that do. If GMail doesn't have it, well, that won't be the first broken-by-design misfeature in GMail that I've run into.
On 9-Nov-2009, at 05:09, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Brian J Mingus writes:
I just found an e-mail sent to Mailman-Developers that never
received a reply. It is essentially identical to mine. How can I bring this
feature to life?A fully functional MUA allows you to pull out the forwarded message and respond to it. Mutt, Gnus, VM, MH-E (and MH itself), Mew, and Wanderlust all have this capability; I'm sure there are other MUAs that do. If GMail doesn't have it, well, that won't be the first broken-by-design misfeature in GMail that I've run into.
I think gmail DOES do this if you open the attachment. I can't seem to
find an example to test it on…
Ah, oK, no, not exactly. It only allows you to see the full message,
but not to open it as a message.
Guess you might have to use some other mail client for this (I know OS
X's Mail.app works just fine with this, click the attachment, reply.
Done and done. I bet ThunderBird does as well.)
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