On 04/04/2017 07:32 AM, Zalezny Niezalezny wrote:

is it possible to moderate Mailman newsletter E-mails without Mailman Webpanel ?

So, user (administrator) sending newsletter e-mail to

list@example.com

Set the list so all posters are moderated so all posts are held.

Set the list's admin_immed_notify (under Notifications on the General Options page) to Yes.

Then a post to the list will be held and a notice sent to the owners and moderators.

The notice will contain 3 MIME parts. The first part is a notice about the held message. The second part is the message itself. The third part is a message that says:

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.

There are two things to note about this. The message in the second MIME part is the message as received my the list. It has not been content filtered or decorated with header and/or footer, so it is not exactly what a list member will see.

The other thing is "If you reply to this message" in the 3rd MIME part refers to the message which is the 3rd part, not the whole notice. It's not critical that you actually "reply", but that message part is From: the list-request address with Subject: confirm xxxxxx where xxxxxx is a specific confirmation token for the held message, so to approve the held message by email, you need to send a "reply" To: the list-request address with Subject: confirm xxxxxx and with the first line of the body being

Approved: pppp

where pppp is the list admin or moderator password.

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