On 1/26/22 11:05, nate wrote:
Can I suggest the messaging to new users be improved to communicate this situation as it is not clear.
The automated message I got said this was the reason my message was held: The message comes from a moderated member.
Which makes sense if I REALLY think about it(I was a moderated member at first), but then the next question is why was I moderated. Your explanation makes sense.
It would be nice if it had more info along the lines of what you said, or even better adjust the messaging for the "Welcome" email to indicate your first message(s) will be held for moderation(I checked both emails I got back from the list just now to verify this info is not there). I was confused for a while(again 21 year veteran of mailman) thinking I sent my message using the wrong email address, after confirming I sent with the right one I just decided to wait to see what would happen.
The situation is no different in Mailman 2.1. The issue is that what may be appropriate in the held message to the user or the list welcome message depends on list configuration and the policies of the particular list. Thus, we can't really modify the default message templates in this way. It requires making list specific templates or possibly domain or site specific templates where all the lists in a domain or site have the same policies. This can be done by list, domain or site admins, but doing or suggesting this on a site like, e.g., mail.python.org which has 232 Mailman 2.1 lists with a total of 243 unique owners and 182 Mailman 3 lists with a total of 212 unique owners is a daunting prospect.
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