Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I have a mailing list that, due to specific circumstances, has a requirement to allow messages from a user that sends messages with no subject. Do you mean "any user who sends a message with no subject", or are
via Mailman-users writes: there specific users who do this? If there is one such user (or a handful), and you trust that user not to abuse the privilege, you can directly pre-approve that user from Users menu in the list configuration (see Mark's post for details). This also works if there is no Subject field at all! If you don't know who might post with no subject (or there are annoyingly many, especially if some are less than clueful), you could use the header match:
The address in question is from an automated process, so there's no immediate expectation that it will be abused, so I'm utilizing the recommendation that Mark provided. I'll see if that works as expected.
And, out of curiosity, why is the "accept_these_nonmembers" collection not applicable here? Is its use deprecated or is there a very particular use case for it?
""" While non-regexp addresses can be entered here, it is preferred to add the address as a nonmember and set the nonmember's Moderation to Default Processing. """
I should have paid more attention to this part.
Thanks!