manual approval for automatic trac bug cc'ing

[hamish]

Hi,

as the moderator/admin for the live-demo@osgeo mailing list I'm having to manually approve all email traffic from the trac/bug system which is set up to automatically cc the mailing list.

Markus (+ Frank?) had guided me to set this up + test successfully some months ago, but now it isn't working and I can't figure out why.

"Cause: Message has implicit destination"

In the privacy->recipient filters setup the acceptable aliases for From address seems to be set appropriately. Also the from:whitelist seems ok in the sender filters.

any ideas?

thanks, Hamish

[neteler]

If you grant me access to the admin page of this mailing list, I can compare to the grass-dev settings. I darkly remember that several items have to be adjusted.

Markus

[wolf]

Replying to hamish:

as the moderator/admin for the live-demo@osgeo mailing list I'm having to manually approve all email traffic from the trac/bug system which is set up to automatically cc the mailing list.

"Cause: Message has implicit destination"

In the privacy->recipient filters setup the acceptable aliases for From address seems to be set appropriately. Also the from:whitelist seems ok in the sender filters.

There is a setting under Privacy options... [Recipient Filters]. The setting require explicit destination should maybe be set to No, or something like that.

Or else the list name has to be added as an alias or something weird like that :S.

--Wolf

[neteler]

I checked grass-dev:

Mailman:

• in [Sender filters]: List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted: trac@… and trac_osgeo4w@…
• in [Recipient filters]: Alias names (regexps) which qualify as explicit to or cc destination names for this list: trac@…

But you might need to check 'pending moderator requests' for the "from" header of the trac mails to match them for the entries above.

Hope that helps, Markus

[hamish]

Mmph. I added in what seems to be all the relevant alias names. Still not working.

Markus, if it is alright I will take you up on the offer to lend another set of eyes to the problem.

Hamish

[neteler]

Fixed. In Mailman:

• in [Sender filters]: List of non-member addresses whose postings should be automatically accepted: trac@… and trac_osgeo@…
• in [Recipient filters]: Alias names (regexps) which qualify as explicit to or cc destination names for this list: trac@… and trac_osgeo@…

One more thing was needed

• Privacy options...
  • Recipient filters
    • Recipient filters: Must posts have list named in destination (to, cc) field (or be among the acceptable alias names, specified below)?
      • No (default is yes)

That's it, works.

Markus

[hamish]

Ok, now observed to be working. Thanks again for your help.

I can't help but feel that our solution is simply working around a mailman bug though.

regards, Hamish