[Mailman-Users] Is it possible to delay messages?

[Mark Sapiro]

James Reid wrote:
>
>What I would like to now do is move to a sort of half-way ground of
>permitting many members to send messages out un-moderated again.  However,
>I'd like to give the impression that the list is still fully moderated by
>creating an automated delay for all un-moderated subscribers (possibly even
>2-3 hours, though a random interval would be even better) between when their
>messages are received and when they are sent out to the list.
>
>I'm using a combination of postfix and mailman... can anyone give me a
>suggestion of how I could create a delay somewhere?


You'd have to do it in Postfix. Mailman has no facility for this. You
might for example be able to use header_checks to identify a message
to, but not from the list and HOLD it, and then run some periodic cron
that would release messages from the HOLD queue.

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