[Mailman-Users] moderation bit off on explicitly selected users

[Tomas Macek]

> Tomas Macek wrote:
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>> we are using mailman 2.1.5 with Postfix. On our announce-only list we have subscribed all of our employees. This list is fully moderated, so when someone posts, the message waits for approving. That's fine. Now I need to have some users (3 mail addresses) of the subscribes, that can post to the list without moderation and waiting for approving from the moderator. Where can I specify these adresses? I do not use the mailman's web interface.
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>> According to the posts I have found on google, this should be done by modifying the moderation bit on each user, but I cannot find where it could be done in the config file?
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> It can be done, but it is tricky. You have to call the list method to
> do it.
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>> The config file is the one obtained from the ./config_list -o list.conf MyList.
>> When I specify this in
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>>     owner = ['adr1 at ourdomain.cz', 'adr2 at ourdomain.cz', 'adr3 at ourdomain.cz']
>>     moderator = ['adr1 at ourdomain.cz', 'adr2 at ourdomain.cz', 'adr3 at ourdomain.cz']
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>> it does not help, the message from adr1 at ourdomain.cz waits for approving.
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> You made these addresses both owner and moderator which is redundant
> and only means that they will receive notices for the owner/moderator.
> It has nothing to do with posting. Go to the FAQ wizard
> <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py> and see FAQ's 3.27, 3.45
> and 3,60 for more on this.
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>> I set up this further settings:
>> default_member_moderation = True
>> member_moderation_action = 0
>> generic_nonmember_action = 3
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>> I tried to setup the config like here http://www.modwest.com/help/kb13-195.html, but I think this is the case I have now - any message that came to the list is moderated, without exceptions. But I want these exceptions - some people can post without moderation.
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> See FAQ 3.11 for our advice on this.
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>> Can anyone help me? If you want to know any other options I have in the config, let me know please.
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> Why can't you use the web interface?
We don't want to use the web interface, because we don't want to have another software running on our mailserver - we understand it as another possible security hole.

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> from Mailman import mm_cfg
> mlist.setMemberOption('user at example.com', mm_cfg.Moderate, 0)
> del mm_cfg
This works, I used this, thanks!