[Mailman-Developers] Automated responses

[Dan Mick]

> >I=B4m creating  a  moderated  list, but I=B4d like to avoid the automate=
d
> >response  to posters advicing that "your email is being held until the
> >list moderator can review it for approval".
> >
> >In the Auto-responder section of the Administration site I set to "No"
> >the  question  "Should  Mailman  send an auto-response to mailing list
> >posters?", but this didn=B4t work.
> >
> >Question: Where should I have to look to change this? Do I need to
> >change/rewrite any of Mailman script=B4s?
>=20
> It should work, Hold.py line 237:
>=20
>      if not fromusenet and not mlist.dont_respond_to_post_requests:
>          subject =3D 'Your message to %s awaits moderator approval' % lis=
tname
>          text =3D Utils.maketext('postheld.txt', d)
>          msg =3D Message.UserNotification(sender, adminaddr, subject, tex=
t)
>          HandlerAPI.DeliverToUser(mlist, msg)
>=20
> Maybe mlist.dont_respond_to_post_requests isn't set properly by the web=
=20
> interface?
> I'm not very familar with that part of Mailman.
>=20
> Anyway, if you want to make the change yourself, you just need to comment=
=20
> out the section above.

...or use withlist to set that variable on your mailing list
(see the comments at the front of withlist for how to use it)