[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Changing content before approving message

[Jon Carnes]

Do you have root (or mailman command line) access on the box?  If so,
then you can simply edit the waiting file in the queue.  It's very
simple and works every time.

Otherwise, there are some older patches - which probably still work -
that allow you to edit the message via the web interface and then
approve it.

The problem with the 2.0x series of Mailman is that the message you see
in the web interface is a partial copy of the message that is actually
in the queue.  In order to edit via the web-interface you need to load
the entire message into the web-interface and then on approval, dump out
the contents of the web-form into the queue (deleting or overwriting the
current queued up message).  

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:00, Kory Wheatley wrote:
> Is there a way when the moderator receive a message, and before he
> approves it to be sent to the mailing list, to change the content and
> the from address in the message and then send it to the list with these
> changes or updates in place.
> 
> I thought there was a command that you could use  to "Approved:
> listpassword" to change the content with.
> 
> There are times that we need to change the body and the from address of
> the pending message before it can be approved.
> Please help this is real critical and I would appreciate any
> information.
> 
> We are using RED HAT  7.2 with python 1.5.2 and mailman 2.0.13
> 
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