On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Nick Burch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> Strange, but I see my emails getting caught by moderation, even when they >> are from an address in MailAlias.txt. > > MailAlias is not magic, it's just what moderators can check when they're not > sure > > As a moderator, when you get a moderation request there are three addresses > you can reply to to act on it. One is to reject it, one is to accept it, and > one is to add the sender to the "always allow" list. In most sensible mail > clients, if as a moderator you do a reply to all you'll get the two allow > addresses. Send that, and the message will be approved and the user's email > address will be allowed to post in future >
OK. That explains it. I was assuming MailAlias was used for automated checking. But the aliases really are only automated after a moderator does that extra step. Thanks. > Nick >
