ARCHIVED: How does the owner of a moderated Majordomo mailing list approve a message sent to the list?

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UITS has retired the Majordomo list server at Indiana University Bloomington. If you were the primary owner of an IUB Majordomo list, you can no longer use it to send mail. If you'd like to create a new mailing list, anyone with an IU Network ID username and passphrase can request a LISTSERV list. For instructions, see ARCHIVED: At IU, how do I request a new LISTSERV list? Also, for a collection of documents with general LISTSERV information, and information about owning and subscribing to LISTSERV lists at IU, see the Knowledge Base menu ARCHIVED: LISTSERV, distribution lists, and mass mailing.

To approve a message sent to a moderated Majordomo list, you as owner first need to forward the message to the list, adding the following to the top of the message:

  approved: password

Replace password with the list's password. You also need to remove some (but not all) of the header information so that the body of the message starts like this:

  approved: password
  Date: Wed, 16 Aug 04 10:14:16 EST
  From: Original Sender <original-sender@host.domain>
  Subject: original subject line
  To: listname@host.domain
  message text

Note: Do not put a blank line between the "approved: password" line and the header lines, or your message will bounce back to you for approval again, rather than being sent to your list.

When the message is delivered to list members, "approved: password" will not appear in the message, and the headers will indicate that the message was sent from the true originator of the message (and not the list moderator).

If you delete the original header lines (i.e., who sent the message, the date it was sent to the list, and the original subject line), it will appear as if the message originated from you (the list owner). Furthermore, without these header lines, Majordomo will treat the first paragraph of the message body as a header, and will add additional header information between the first and second paragraphs. Be sure to delete the proper header information to avoid this problem.

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Last modified on 2018-01-18 10:06:14.