[Mailman-Developers] Approval system

[James Thompson]

Hello,

I'm trying to hack e-mail based message approval into mailman (like
majordomo's system)  I've managed to alter the system to include copies of
the mail to be approved with the notice to the list admin.  I've also
discovered that the Approved: header does work.  However I'm seeing the
following issues.....

Majordomo must be manipulating the headers of a message a bit.  The mail
clients elm and pine both add a space between the mails headers and the
first line of the message body.  (as required)  However majordomo seems to
deal with this and still accept the Approved: password if it is the first
line of the message body followed by a blank line.

Also - IIRC when a message is approved majordomo seems to substitute the
original headers from the initial pre-approved message.  So the admin
isn't retyping that initial information over again.

I'm willing and (hopefully :) able to work on email based approvals for
mailman but really don't care to waste my time if others have a better
solution in the works or have no interest in it.  Or if it's already being
developed by others I could lend a hand as I'm dying to get rid of
majordomo ASAP.

Thanks,
James

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Kansas State University                          Department of Mathematics
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