Re: [mlmmj] Trying to use moderation, but email server is rejecting moderator's release reply to lis

On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:18:45PM -0700, webmaster wrote:
> On 6/20/2020 2:38 PM, Matrix Quote wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 02:10:55PM -0700, webmaster wrote:
> >> I've been using MLMMJ for years with several closed lists, and it works
> >> great! Can't say enough good things about it.
> >>
> >> Now I have finally reached a place where I need moderation on a list, so
> >> I implemented the two files [list]/control/moderated and
> >> [list]/control/moderators.
> >>
> >> Tested some email submissions, and as expected they were sent to the
> >> moderators for release or rejection...So far so good...
> >>
> >> But when I reply to the moderation notice to release the original email
> >> to the list, it's sent back to a pseudo-email address (the reply-to
> >> address) like:
> >>
> >> [list name][email protected]
> >>
> >> (list name obviscated above)
> >>
> >> Our email server doesn't recognize this as a real email account so it's
> >> bouncing back my "release" response with the usual "Unknown user"
> >> bounce-back.
> >>
> >> I tried reply-all, which also included the [list][email protected]
> >> address, and the email server still bounced the reply.
> >>
> >> I've re-read the docs but can't find anything pointing to additional
> >> steps needed to get the moderation-release replies to get past my email
> >> server's filtering of non-existent addresses.  I doubt I'm supposed to
> >> simply add these address accounts to the email server, not least because
> >> there's no nothing to that effect in the documentation.
> >>
> >> How is this email-reply moderation process supposed to work when sending
> >> pseudo-addresses to my email server, which is correctly rejecting such
> >> incoming mail as directed to a non-existing account?
> >
> > Neo:  Why do my eyes hurt?
> > Morpheus:  You never used them before.
> >
> 
> A pithy answer may be amusing, but it doesn't provide much to go on.
> 
> The moderation notice email contains:
> 
> To release it to the list, please send a message to
> <[email protected]> which can usually be done simply
> by replying to this message.
> 
> 
> Replying to that email didn't work, so I'm simply looking for a bit of
> advice for where to start. 
 
And that was recieved as "you must spoon feed me".


> For some time I've exploited the mlmmj system by writing my own code to
> help manage the tunables as well as the the other text files, which I
> know well, but up to now I've been managing relatively small lists that
> never needed moderation. So now I'm back at the beginning, looking for
> some help...not riddles.

Start with try to understand what a MTA does and how it co-operates
with mmlmj.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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