[Mailman-Developers] On allowing any list member to be an email moderator

[Robby Griffin]

On Jan 1, 2006, at 13:51, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 3:48 AM -0500 2006-01-01, Robby Griffin wrote:
>
>>  Here's what I've done for somewhat unrelated reasons:
>>
>>  - patch bin/discard to support rejecting held messages
>>     and providing rejection comments.
>>
>>  - add a cron job that rejects held messages older than 10 days,
>>     with the following comment:
>>
>>     "Your message was automatically rejected after being on hold too
>>      long without moderator action."
>
> 	I like both of these modifications.  Have you already submitted 
> patches for them to SourceForge?  If not, could I talk you into doing 
> that?

I'll go ahead and post what I have as it relates to 2.1.4, and point 
out that held message expiration in 2.1.7 already exists but could use 
minor improvements.

I don't have a lot of time to work on it right now, and as I started to 
think about putting together clean diffs against 2.1.7, I observed that 
my changes are *almost* obsolete: sometime after 2.1.4, a per-list 
config parameter for "max_days_to_hold" was added, and bin/checkdbs 
uses it to expire held messages. But it supports only discard, and not 
reject/comment or approve. Also, it does not deal with stale held 
messages whose lists have since been deleted.

See patch #1394949.

	--Robby