[Mailman-Users] accept_these_nonmembers not working

[Mark Sapiro]

Cyndi Norwitz wrote:

>   From: Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>
>
>   Here's where I'm confused (thank you Sonic). The reason "Post to
>   moderated list" says this is a post from a member whose moderate flag
>   is set. That's the only source of that reason.
>
>Unless the wording is slightly different and I'm misremembering, it says
>this also when messages from non-members are being held for moderation (I
>set up the list so that mail from non-members would come to me for
>moderation as opposed to being rejected).


It should say "Post by non-member to a members-only list" in that case.


>   But, in that case, at this point, there should be a "Clear this member's
>   moderate flag" checkbox, so I don't know what's going on.
>
>Well, there should be an option to set auto posting status.  It's there for
>all other non-members.


It will never be there if the user's (lower-cased) address is already
in one of *_these_nonmembers.


>   Check your membership list to see if she is a moderated member.
>
>I just checked and she is not listed as a member under that address.


How about another address in her message. If any address in a From:,
Reply-To: or Sender: header or the envelope sender is a list member,
the post will be considered to be from that member for purposes of
moderation.


>BTW, I'm using version 2.1.9.


Actually, I think you are using Sonic's Mailman which we've already
determined is non-standard at least wrt mass subscribe.

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