Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve/Deny moderated posts via email - my failure to understand how
On 07/22/2014 03:38 PM, David wrote: > > After reading Mark's reply, I understand a little more, but I still do not > have success. The message I receive back is: > > *Bad approval password given. Held message is still being held.* > > > What is the list password that is required? I have tried the list admin > password and the list moderators password. Either those are not the > required password or I am putting them in the wrong location in the message. The password is either the list admin password or the list moderator password. The fact that you get the "Bad approval password" response indicates you have included the Approved: header or first body line, but the password doesn't match the list admin password or the list moderator password. The header/line should be exactly Approved: password where password is the list admin or moderator password. If that's what you're sending without any quotes or <> around the password, it is possible that you are composing a 'rich text' reply and your MUA is creating a text/plain alternative which has somehow munged the Approved: line. You can check this by including yourself in a Bcc: on the reply and then examining the raw source of the Bcc: message. Note that if you sent an HTML only message, The Approved: line wouldn't be seen at all because only the first text/plain part if any is examined. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Approve/Deny moderated posts via email - my failure to understand how
On 05/19/2014 08:09 AM, Drew Tenenholz wrote: > > When a moderated message came in this morning, I _thought_ I followed the > instructions by hitting reply, then adding the Approved header to the top of > the message body as below. > > What happened instead was that my message (I'm also an approved list member) > got sent to the list VERBATIM, including the display of the list password. > This is a minor list, and the damage is minimal, but I don't want this to > happen again. I've had similar problems before, and thus stayed clear of the > email method to approve/deny, but now that the web interface is down, I NEED > this to work correctly. If you replied to the message, your reply was only sent to the list owners and moderators, not to the whole list, and the approved pseudo header wasn't stripped because it isn't anticipated the messages to -owner have one. > What's the trick to being able to approve/deny via email? The thing that told you you could reply to this message to discard the post or with an Approved: header or first body line to accept it, was a separate message/rfc822 part, ant it was telling you to reply to that part, not the outer message. That message is From: the list -request address with Subject: confirm . So the trick is to send a message to the list -request address with Subject: confirm (or maybe Re: confirm ) and with the Approved: header or first body line, which you can do by replying to the message/rfc822 sub-part if your MUA supports that. Otherwise you need some copy and paste. -- Mark Sapiro The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, Californiabetter use your sense - B. Dylan -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
