[Mailman-Users] moderation / hold does not work

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:57 AM +0100 2005-01-17, Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:

>  I am using Mailman 2.1.5 with apache 1.3.26 for the
>  web interface, sendmail 8.12.3 for the MTA on a
>  Debian stable system. The setup for the web interface
>  is standard (/mailman and /pipermail, straight from
>  the manual).

	Well, "/mailman" and "/pipermail" are not what I would consider 
standard locations for these things.  Standard locations would all be 
under "/usr/local/mailman".  Anything else is non-standard, at least 
as far as Mailman is concerned.

	Note that the mail/mailing list server for python.org (which 
hosts the mailman-users mailing list) is configured very similarly, 
the only major difference being that we use postfix instead of 
sendmail for our MTA.  In reality, this difference really isn't 
significant, at least as far as the operations of Mailman are 
concerned -- one MTA should not really be any different from any 
other MTA, so long as they do the same basic things.

>  Sending a message from a non-member address
>  the message is delivered correctly to mailman:
>
>  Jan 17 11:33:49 tutnix sm-mta[20231]: j0HAXnVf020231:
>  from=<nowoonder at yahoo.com>, size=1828, class=0, nrcpts=1,
>  msgid=<20050117094108.88207.qmail at web53908.mail.yahoo.com>, proto=
>  ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=ms-2.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.131]
>  Jan 17 11:33:50 tutnix sm-mta[20232]: j0HAXnVf020231:
>  to="|/home/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman",
>  ctladdr=<mailman at tutnix.aegee.rwth-aachen.de> (8/0), delay=00:00:01,
>  xdelay=0
>  0:00:01, mailer=prog, pri=32075, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
>  Neither a moderation message is sent to the owner nor
>  are there any pending moderation requests in the web
>  interface. I cannot find any heldmsg*-files, too.

	So, does this message get posted to the list, or does it just disappear?


	At this point, I'm not sure what I can tell you.  I administer or 
co-administer Mailman installations at a few different sites, and 
everywhere I do that, using "Moderation" works just fine.

	There's something strange going on at your site, but without more 
information, I can't begin to guess what that is.  As a starting 
point, I would suggest that you try the debugging recommendations at 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq03.014.htp>. 
Your problem is slightly different, but the debugging procedures are 
the same.


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