[Mailman-Users] Held Messages - Accept via email ?

[Mark Sapiro]

On 08/07/2014 11:56 AM, Anne M. Hammond wrote:
> mailman 2.1.12
> 
> Can Held Messages be Accept-ed via an email message, by
> including the list password in the body of the message?
> 
> For example, as list Moderator, I receive the Held Message
> summary:
> 
> --------------------
> 
> The test at corp.com mailing list has 1 request(s) waiting for your
> consideration at:
> 
> 	http://internal.corp.com/mailman/admindb/test
> 	
> Please attend to this at your earliest convenience.  This notice of
> pending requests, if any, will be sent out daily.
> 
> 
> From: kenny.thomas at onlinesalesdata.com on Wed Aug  6 13:21:46 2014
> Subject: Attention Required
> Cause: Post by non-member to a members-only list
> 
> --------------------
> 
> Is there a way to send email to test-request at corp.com to Accpt the
> message?


You need the confirmation token which is only included in the individual
notices you receive if the list's admin_immed_notify is Yes.

If you set this, you will receive a three part message from Mailman with
each held message. The first part is the held notice, the second is the
held message itself and the third is a message/rfc822 part From: the
list-request address with Subject: confirm <token>. The body of that
third part says:

If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact,
Mailman will discard the held message.  Do this if the message is
spam.  If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header
with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting
to the list.  The Approved: header can also appear in the first line
of the body of the reply.

The important things are:
1) "reply to this message" means the message/rfc822 part, not the outer
message. I.e. the reply goes To: the list-request address with Subject:
confirm <token> (possibly with Re: added). Actually it can be any
message To: the list-request address with Subject: confirm <token>.

2) if you want to accept rather than discard the message, you must include

Approved: password

as an actual header or the first body line of the reply where password
is the list admin or moderator password.

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