[Mailman-Users] How do you edit a moderated message?

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GM" == Garey Mills <gmills at library.berkeley.edu> writes:

    GM> 	Using both pine and the Unix mail program, if I
    GM> respond to the moderation message, the text of the message
    GM> held for moderation is not included in the reply; likewise, if
    GM> I forward the message to myself from the moderation webpage,
    GM> and then try to reply to it or forward it, the mailer does not
    GM> include the original message in the new message, so I can't
    GM> edit the text. If I compose a new message and then cut and
    GM> paste the original message into the new message, the resulting
    GM> message shows up in the list as coming from me (not to mention
    GM> the fact that the 'Approved:' header is not used or needed as
    GM> described in the instructions).

    GM> 	Would someone care to clear this up for me? I manage a
    GM> site with multiple lists; most moderated by relatively
    GM> unsophisticated users, and they are depending on me to
    GM> instruct them in how to moderate. If I can't figure it out, I
    GM> can't help them.

Here's what I do.  I admit that it's somewhat awkward.

First, I forward the held message to myself via the -owner address.
When the message shows up in my inbox, it's in a MIME encapsulation,
meaning the message I got was a message/rfc822 container with the
entire held message as a subpart.

My mail reader has a command called "bursting" which basically takes a
message/rfc822 or multipart/digest message and gives me a folder view
of all the contained messages.  In this case, I burst the
message/rfc822 into a folder containing one message -- the forwarded
hold.

Now, my mail reader has another command called "resend" which
basically copies the original message unchanged into a composition
window, adding a Resent-To header.  This is a mail trick to resend a
message preserving as much of the original headers as possible.

So in this window I edit the contents of the message to my admin's
heart's content, set the Resent-To header back to the list, and then
add an Approved header with the list password.  When I hit send, this
message goes to the list without being held.  Viola!  (or more
preferrably Contrabasso! :).

I usually don't discard the original held message until I'm sure my
approved resend has gone through the list.

HTH,
-Barry