GNU Mailman

moderation approval should send email notification

Bug #266760 reported by Kiwimonster
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GNU Mailman
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Bug Description

When a non-member attempts to post to a moderated list,
they receive an email informing them that their message
is pending moderation. However, when the moderator has
approved the message, they receive no follow-up to let
them know this has happened. Since the non-member is
not on the list, they have no way of knowing whether
their post was successful.

It would be nice to have a checkbox that allowed the
moderator to notify the poster when their message has
been approved. Or, to have notification sent by default.

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1041100&group_id=103&atid=350103]

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Tokio Kikuchi (tkikuchi) wrote :

This is more a feature request than a bug.

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Kiwimonster (kiwimonster) wrote :

Okay, so it's a feature request. Is there any chance that
this functionality will be added to Mailman?

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Raphaël Barrois (raphael-barrois-launchpad) wrote :

I think this functionnality would be quite useful for mailing lists used with "non-tech" users, who don't understand why they aren't notified of their message being approved...

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Raphaël Barrois (raphael-barrois-launchpad) wrote :

--- Acknowledge.py.orig 2010-01-07 15:50:01.000000000 +0100
+++ Acknowledge.py 2010-01-07 15:50:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@
         if not ack:
             return
     except Errors.NotAMemberError:
- return
+ if not mlist.notify_nonmembers_post_approved:
+ return
     # Okay, they want acknowledgement of their post. Give them their original
     # subject. BAW: do we want to use the decoded header?
     origsubj = msgdata.get('origsubj', msg.get('subject', _('(no subject)')))

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Stephan (stephan-edel) wrote :

This is quite an issue for us since we had to configure 'emergency' = 'yes' due to spam with targeted spoofing of list member addresses.

Now, member posts are held without the poster being notified; they get confused about what happened; they will re-post several times; until the next day a moderator gets the digest of their piled-up posts.

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Stephan (stephan-edel) wrote :

I'm sorry, please disregard my comment #5. Our issue is somewhat different, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1648933

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