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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

> I have a need for several moderated lists.  Currently there are no
> moderators defined for these lists and send is set to moderated even for
> the moderators.  The list owners do the moderation.  The situation I
> would like to inquire about is how could I add one or more persons that
> could send to these several lists without having the list owners having
> to moderate the message.
>
>    
one way to do this is to set up two lists:
1. the "real" one containing everybody on the list - set up as a 
standard, moderated list
2. another list, not used to send mail, but just to hold the names of 
people allowed to send un-moderated messages

then, assuming the lists are named "list" and "list-allowed-senders:"

3. go into the admin interface for the "real" list (i.e., "list")
and track down to edit-list-config>sending/receiving setup

4. in the box titled "who can send messages" (where you set the list as 
moderated), click on "scenario source"

5. insert a line along the lines of

is_subscriber(list-allowed-senders,[sender])     smtp,smime,md5    ->do_it
(note that lines are executed in the order listed, so put this before 
the line that send the message to a moderator)

and hit save

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You're telling sympa to take any messages, sent by addresses subscribe 
to list-allowed-senders to send unmoderated messages to "list"

I actually do this in reverse for one list - using a similar scenario to 
modify new, and/or troublesome subscribers to an otherwise unmoderated list.

Hope this helps,

Miles Fidelman






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