Hi.

I am looking for software to manage a newsletter, and I think that with some configuration I can do this with Mailman. The end-product I want is a newsletter with content contributed my subscribers and non-subscribers, with a list of the "posts" followed by the actual content. At the basic level, I was able to achieve this with a moderated digest-mode list. However, I would also like to make the following changes, and am not sure how:

1. Remove the header information for the digest, as it deters from the newsletter. This would be the From, Date and Message ID (I would like to be able to keep the Subject). I know there is the "Hide the sender of a message, replacing it with the list address (Removes From, Sender and Reply-To fields)" option, but that is not enough.
2. Allow moderators to make changes to the submissions, in case spelling or punctuation errors are found.
3. Suppress the autoresponder for non-subscriber posts but allow the autoresponder for all posts. For all posts, I want an autoresponse sent with more information. I was able to get this to work, but an autoresponse is also sent for the "Post by non-member to a members-only list" reason. If I set "Send mail to poster when their posting is held for approval?" to "No", then no responses are sent; if I set this to "Yes" and also set "Should Mailman send an auto-response to mailing list posters?" to yes, non-subscribers get two messages. Is there a way to suppress the "Post by non-member to a members-only list" autoresponder?

Thanks.

Julianna

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