On 3/17/20 8:58 AM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
Now that we are on mailman3, I'm finding things that were really useful in mailman2 are completely missing in mailman3, which seems odd, since they in particular affect the ability of list moderators to do their job well.
a) When a post was made to a moderated list in mailman2, I would get an email that included a LINK to the held email. Now I just get a canned email saying I need to go to the dashboard, blah blah. Why was this link removed? It was extremely useful and now I have to jump through extra hoops.
The message comes from Mailman core. Mailman core does not know what web management UI you are using or the URI to access it. You need to change the template for the message to include the URL. E.g. on this iist, in var/templates/sitr/en/list\:admin\:action\:post.txt we have
As list administrator, your authorization is requested for the following mailing list posting:
List: $listname
From: $sender_email
Subject: $subjectThe message is being held because:
$reasons
At your convenience, visit https://lists.mailman3.org/mailman3/lists/$list_id/held_messages to approve or deny the request.
b) When a post is made to a moderated list in mailman2, when I went to the page to approve/deny/discard, there was additionally an option to remove the moderated flag from the user for all future emails. This option no longer exists. This was EXTREMELY useful, as we force all new members of the list to be moderated for a time while we evaluate the quality of their postings. Now I have to go manually track down the user and their settings. Unnecessary extra hoops to jump through
Click on the subject in the held messages list. At the bottom of the dialog that opens, there is a drop down to set the user's moderation. Normally, you would set it to 'default processing'.
c) When a post is made to a moderated list, one of the options when selecting REJECT was it allowed me to set a custom message when rejecting the email. This was extremely useful. For example today, someone emailed our bug tracking list directly instead of filing a bug. In the past, I would have added a note to them about what they should do (in this case, I would have told them to send their email to our community technical discussion list). Now I can no longer do that, I can only reject it or discard it. Why was this removed?
This was not "removed". It just hasn't been implemented in MM 3 yet. See, e.g., <https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/368> and <https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/issues/368>.
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