[Mailman-Users] Looping Moderator Approval Requests / Mailman&Exim

[Mark Sapiro]

Mike Peachey wrote:
>
>When a post is received that is held for moderation, an e-mail is sent 
>to list-owner, but when that is sent back into mailman for forwarding, 
>mailman treats the message as if it was going onto the list


This is the problem. Exim is piping mail to listname-owner at example.com
to "| /path/to/mail/mailman/ post listname" and it should be piped to
"| /path/to/mail/mailman/ owner listname".


>and holds it 
>(because of the included message that was originally help). This then 
>generates another moderation e-mail which is sent to list-owner which is 
>then held and so on.
>
>I'm not sure if there is a fundamental failure in my understanding of 
>the system of if there's something I've not thought about, but I cannot 
>get it to work properly.


It is an exim configuration problem.


>I've seen a lot of documentation suggesting that every list should have 
>10 aliases in the Exim aliases file for piping into mailman, and -owner 
>is included in these, however I think I am right in saying that that 
>doesn't apply in this situation because I have configured the Exim 
>transport/router as directed to pipe all mail into mailman that hasn't 
>been caught by aliases instead.


Exim is normally configured with a router and transport for Mailman so
aliases are not needed, but the router and transport have to be
correctly configured.

See
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.019.htp>
for pointers to exim's documentation on setting this up.

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