On 6/21/2010 12:25 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

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At one point I had an address (chiraelx@gmail.com) which was subscribed to the list (adf-www). Do you mean (as implied by your access to the inbox) that this is your personal address?

Yeah, one of several :)

If so, I don't know if GMail allows this, but is it possible that you configured that account to automatically have an Approved header?

No, but...

This reminded me that I had set the Reply-To for chiraelx@gmail.com to athomps@adf.org (this account).

So I just removed the Reply-To in the Gmail settings, and tried posting again, and got the expected rejection notice - yay.

However, this raised another question - why did the Reply-To setting affect the behavior of Mailman?

So, I tried posting to this list (adf-www) from a completely unrelated account, artx@sigilservices.com. As expected, I got the post sent back to me with the nonmember_rejection_notice text.

BUT, when I sent a post from artx@sigilservices.com with a Reply-To of athomps@adf.org (which *is* subscribed to the adf-www) list, instead of getting a rejection notice back to artx@sigilservices.com, instead "Your message to ADF-WWW awaits moderator approval" was sent to athomps@adf.org!

This is very weird behavior - it's weird that Mailman would behave differently when the From has not changed, but the Reply-To header has, especially since it's so easy to set that to anything one wants.

I guess my initial issue is resolved, since I had forgotten about setting the Reply-To in GMail - and I do apologize for that.

But it's still odd that Mailman would act differently based on the value in the Reply-To field, unless I'm not understanding something correctly.

Thanks Stephen, and Mark too, for your help.

(And while I'm at it, how do I request a feature for a future release? I was glad that there is a nonmember_rejection_notice field, but would have really liked to see a nonmember_hold_notice field too!)

thanks, Anthony