[Mailman-Users] administrivia option

[Gregory Leblanc]

I've been running mailman on my servers for a while, and letting other
people run the mailing lists, but just recently I ended up starting a
list which I need to run.  I've seen this "administrivia" option quite a
few times, and thought "oh, that's cool, I don't have to worry about
silly people sending a subscribe message to the list.  Now that I'm
actually running a list, I find that this option is only half as cool as
I'd thought.  Someone just sent a message to the mailing list address
with the single word "subscribe" in the subject, along with absolutely
nothing in the body of the message.  Mailman decided that I needed to
look at this message, rather than simply processing this as an
administrative request.  While that is annoying enough, I find that from
the "administrative requests" page, there's no option to process this
message as an administrative request.  I either need to discard the
message, and manually subscribe this person, or I have to bounce it with
some note that says "I can't understand your request unless you send it
to this other, almost identical address".  Bleah.  So, I guess What I
want to ask is first, why can't mailman automatically process at least
the requests that are very clearly administrative requests that have
been misdirected?  And second, why isn't there an option to "process
this message as if it was sent to the -request address" on the admin
page?  Thanks,
    Greg


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