Jody Cleveland wrote:

I've got a list setup where I only want moderators to be able to post to the list. I've got 5 addresses setup as moderators, but when I use one to post to the list, I get a bounce message: We're sorry, this is an announcement only list. We were unable to post your message.

Putting an address in the list of moderators only results in that address receiving notifications. It doesn't give that address any special privileges. See FAQ articles 3.27 and 3.60.

Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py

I know it must just be a setting I'm missing somewhere. Any ideas what may be wrong with my setup?

Are your moderators list members?

You basically have two choices for posting to your list, one of which is much more secure than the other. See FAQ articles 3.11 and 3.34.

The insecure choice is to have the authorized posters be unmoderated list members, but this is subject to spoofing.

The secure way is for the authorized posters to know the moderator (or admin) list password and to put

Approved: password

either as an actual header in the post or as the first non-blank line of the first text/plain part of the message. Note that if this line is the first line of the body and the post is multipart/alternative, prior to Mailman 2.1.7 the line would not be removed from the alternative parts.

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