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Bloody christ they don’t make this easy to figure out. I’ve been trying to figure out how to approve a moderated post using the mailman email command-line interface after I just moved all my websites to a new hoster. I’ve used mailman before for work, but I realized I hate it! Way to techy, not this 2.0 generation of tech-friendly technology. Lacks features that would be useful and is ascetically disgusting. Any way, you like me would like to approve your post on a mailman list, this is what they say…

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: testlist-request@lists.harshplace.com
To:
Date:
Subject: confirm 68474b9adbc4df89f112bf2ccf359587099591ec
If you reply to this message, keeping the Subject: header intact,
Mailman will discard the held message. Do this if the message is
spam. If you reply to this message and include an Approved: header
with the list password in it, the message will be approved for posting
to the list. The Approved: header can also appear in the first line
of the body of the reply.
Which means if you want to approve the post:

send an email to listname-request@yourlistdomain.com
the subject line should be: “confirm <the-token-listed>”
the first line should be: “Approved <list-password>”

For example:

To: testlist-request@lists.harshplace.com
Subject: confirm 68474b9adbc4df89f112bf2ccf359587099591ec
Body: Approved yourpassword

Now if you want to discard it:

send an email to listname-request@yourlistdomain.com
the subject line should be: “confirm <the-token-listed>”
the body should be blank

For example:

To: testlist-request@lists.harshplace.com
Subject: confirm 68474b9adbc4df89f112bf2ccf359587099591ec
Body:

Eggads what a bunch of tech heads who wrote the unintelligible crapola! I should be careful though, I am a tech head…