[Mailman-Users] Automate Moderator Functions

[Dennis Putnam]

First, thanks for all the replies.

The non-members filter seems to do exactly what I want.

However, it is not clear what the members filter is doing. If I turn
that on, does it mean every message will be Held, Rejected or Discarded?
That does not make sense to me as I cannot think of any circumstance
where that would be useful, especially the reject and discard. I think
it would make more sense if that applied to any member post that would
not otherwise be distributed such as when it exceeds the size. Could
someone clarify.

Thanks.

On 9/24/2012 8:59 AM, Brian Carpenter wrote:
>
> On 9/24/2012 8:50 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>> I've seen various queries on this but nothing definitive about it being
>> added as a feature or even a customizable mod. There are certain
>> moderator actions that potentially could be automated. For example, I
>> would never approve a posting from a non-member of a restricted list. It
>> would make my moderator duties much easier if I could have mailman
>> automatically reject or discard such posts. The same might be true for
>> exceeding the size limit. Is this something that has been considered and
>> rejected as a feature or is it something that is doable now that I have
>> just not been able to find? TIA.
> Hi Dennis:
>
> In regards to non-members, you can adjust the following setting to
> discard on the Privacy options --> Sender Filters page:
>
> "Action to take for postings from non-members for which no explicit
> action is defined."
>
> As for the message-size exceeded messages, you can just leave them in
> the moderation queue and just adjust the following General Options
> page setting to something that would work for you:
>
> "Discard held messages older than this number of days. Use 0 for no
> automatic discarding."
>
> Someone else may have a better suggestion.
>
>
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